It’s Never Too Late: Transitioning to a Career in Cybersecurity

Hello, London! 


I’ve always dreamed of saying that and now, thanks to the International Cyber Expo, I’m going to get to say it. I like to think that I’ll be the Liam Gallagher of cyber security panel discussions, except a good deal less shouty and fighty. So, when I think about it, nothing at all like the sharp ticket practice frontman. However, the discussion that I will be chairing will be, to a certain extent, about a dream and how it was initially up in the sky before I was able to bring it on down to reality. I will be discussing with my fellow panellists how we all pursued the dream of one career but then, to use a pentesting term, pivoted into a different career in cyber security.


I myself was a History teacher and, for 25 years, happily taught 1066 and all that to high school pupils. However, as a history buff, I’m fully aware that time moves on, I’m just getting older, it’s easy to get stale and I’m not going to live forever. My once dream job could have started to fade away and become a tortuous Catch-22 of dreading being in a comfort zone where I would soldier on in uninspired familiarity but being too scared to make a break into the unknown. Enter lockdown, where the calendar stood still, the noise of routine daily life ceased and there were weeks, where time would just slide away, in which to stop and reflect. Having spent a good part of my life telling young people that they could do anything or be anything they wanted as long as they dared to dream, it was time for me to put this to the test. 


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