Alyssa Miller: We have to elevate others. [BISO] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Please enjoy this encore episode of Career Notes. Business Information Security Officer at S&P Global Ratings, Alyssa Miller, joins us to talk about her journey to become a champion to create a welcoming nature and acceptance of diversity in the cybersecurity community. Starting her first full-time tech position while still in college, Alyssa noted the culture shock being in both worlds. Entering as a programmer and then moving to pen testing where she got her start in security, Alyssa grew into a leader who is committed to elevating those around her. Some stumbling blocks along the way gave her pause and helped point her in her current role where Alyssa works to bring more diverse views to improve the problem-solving in the space, something she sees as a key to success for the industry. We thank Alyssa for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Cyberwire Network, powered by N2K.
0:10.1	At TALIS, they know cybersecurity can be tough and you can't protect everything,
0:17.6	but with TALIS, you can secure what matters most.
0:23.2	With TALIS's industry-leading platforms, you can protect critical applications, data, and identities, anywhere and at scale with the highest
0:29.7	ROI. That's why the most trusted brands and largest banks, retailers, and healthcare companies in the
0:36.1	world rely on Talis to protect what matters most. Applications, retailers, and healthcare companies in the world rely on Talis to protect what matters most.
0:40.0	Applications, data, and identity.
0:42.6	That's Talis.
0:44.0	T-H-A-L-E-S.
0:46.3	Learn more at Talisgroup.com slash cyber.
0:50.0	Thank you. Alyssa Miller,
1:01.4	Business Information Security Officer for S&P Global Ratings.
1:23.6	Hello. I mean, they go back to when I was really young, but I laughed because this was definitely not the career I saw myself landing in. I mean, there was a time that I wanted to be an astronaut, a fighter pilot, be a lawyer.
1:30.3	Ultimately, I enrolled in university initially in a pre-med major.
1:35.3	Three semesters of college-level chemistry later, and I was,
1:39.3	what can I change my major to, a year and a half into this? And that's when I stumbled across computer science.
1:47.0	I had been hacking computers since I was 12 and programming even longer than that.
2:03.0	I changed schools and major to get into more of an MIS degree, to bring in more like the business side of it.
2:10.8	I was still in college when I got my first full-time tech job.
2:14.9	I'm in the middle of a degree program in computer science. I knew how to program
2:18.9	already. Companies were desperate for programmers. So I actually landed with a large financial
2:26.7	services company as a programmer on their electronic payment systems. That was really my start.
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