Natalia Semenova

Natalia is a cybersecurity professional with 15+ years of international experience in the industry, based in Toronto. She started her career in the academic environment after achieving PhD degree in mathematical statistics and cryptography, but later transitioned into the corporate sector where she progressed from identity and access management developer to senior security architect at Microsoft and later at Google Cloud. Currently Natalia is working on securing AI technologies in a boutique consulting company.


Session

10-19
10:30
25min
From breaking into cyber to breaking down - and beyond! Overcoming newcomer frustration
Natalia Semenova

Congratulations on breaking into cyber! You did it, you got your first job, now what? Spending meaningless hours reading logs, while nothing happens? Pressing one button to get an automated vulnerability report for the customer? Your more senior colleagues only give you routine tasks?
Or worse, you get 6 hours of meetings every day where you have nothing to say. Also, your salary is not that great. You start thinking that maybe cyber is not for you. Is it time to find a way out or a way to stand out? Let's have a look together!

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