Real Career Stories: Cybersecurity Expert

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[[p]]Ever wonder how a career in cybersecurity begins?[[/p]]

[[p]][[a href="https://digitalmarketinginstitute.com/resources/podcasts/podcast-130-cybersecurity-for-marketers" target="_blank"]]On the DMI podcast[[/a]], we speak to professionals with fascinating career journeys and the experiences that shaped them.[[/p]]

[[p]][[a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-robinson-b6b30952?originalSubdomain=uk" target="_blank"]]Rebecca Robinson[[/a]] didn&#39;t start out in cybersecurity. While completing a PhD in medical electronics at the University of Manchester, she became interested in the challenges of securing connected healthcare devices and protecting sensitive data.[[/p]]

[[p]]That curiosity led her into cybersecurity, where her focus shifted from technology alone to understanding how people interact with digital systems and manage risk.[[/p]]

[[p]]Rebecca reflects on how connected technologies sparked her interest in cybersecurity and why understanding people, behaviours, and decision-making is just as important as understanding the technology itself.[[/p]]

[[p]]Will Francis (00:00)[[br /]]
How did you first get interested in cybersecurity? Like what was the trigger for you to think this is a career for me?[[/p]]

[[p]]Rebecca Robinson (00:09)[[br /]]
A really interesting question and it&#39;s been a bit of a rollercoaster, I&#39;ll be honest. I didn&#39;t go into cybersecurity straight out of education. That wasn&#39;t where I was heading necessarily. I actually did a medical electronics PhD. So I built a brain imaging device for my PhD. I was really interested in the interface between kind[[/p]]

[[p]]human physiology and technology and how technology can aid, in that case, healthcare and diagnosis and interventions. My PhD was at Manchester University and I realised quite quickly that lots of health tech were going down the route[[/p]]

[[p]]of embedding and we were starting to make them IoTs, Internet of Things that connected to the internet enabling remote clinical teams to be able to observe what&#39;s happening with that individual. So in the healthcare setting that was starting to happen quite frequently and the huge benefits for that being able to help to remote monitor somebody who has &#8275; a heart condition for example and being able to identify perhaps[[/p]]

[[p]]where certain things, incidents could happen and prevent obviously anything happening &#8275; in the future. but I realized quite quickly that are connected devices on people with people&#39;s data. And that is really complicated. Lots of complicated aspects to that in terms of thinking about the security. You have personal data, you have...[[/p]]

[[p]]you know, the data being kind of having to be remotely transferred, So I kind of got really interested in all that. I actually then moved into a kind of large scale program delivery and decided that I was really interested in kind of how these programs could impact businesses more generally. So I was speaking to lots of organizations who relied on digital tools.[[/p]]

[[p]]but they didn&#39;t understand the risks. They didn&#39;t understand how their reliance on the IT platforms that they got were actually absolutely going to benefit their organizations long term, but they didn&#39;t understand the risks that also inherently came with relying on technology. And so I &#8275; got lot more interested in[[/p]]

[[p]]the behavior and people&#39;s approaches to cybersecurity and less interested in the technology, I guess, as I kind of moved along. But that kind of human dimension has always kept me really engaged, kind of thinking of whether that was healthcare application or whether that&#39;s trying to make sure that people feel empowered within organizations to make decisions. It&#39;s always been the human dimension that&#39;s kept me engaged in any technology-based job I&#39;ve had.[[/p]]

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