Amanda Fennell: There's a cyber warrior in all of us [Information] [Career Notes]
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🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cyberwire Network, powered by N2K. |
| 0:11.3 | AI is transforming every industry, but it's also creating new risks that traditional frameworks can't keep up with. |
| 0:19.3 | Assessments today are fragmented, overlapping, |
| 0:22.3 | and often specific to industries, geographies, or regulations. That's why Black Kite created |
| 0:28.3 | the BKGA3 AI Assessment Framework to give cybersecurity and risk teams a unified, evolving standard |
| 0:36.2 | for measuring AI risk across their own organizations |
| 0:39.6 | and their vendors' AI use. It's global, research-driven, built to evolve with the threat |
| 0:45.8 | landscape and free to use. Because Black Kite is committed to strengthening the entire |
| 0:51.7 | cybersecurity community. Learn more at blackkite.com. |
| 1:00.5 | Hello, my name is Amanda Fennell, Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Officer at Relativity. |
| 1:15.2 | Okay. officer and chief information officer at relativity. The most common answer when somebody asked me what I wanted to be was typically an archaeologist, |
| 1:21.2 | but the reality was a librarian, which I feel like is maybe an archaeologist in its own way. |
| 1:26.9 | I came from a reasonably not well-to-do family, |
| 1:31.1 | and so college was where I was going to either become something different |
| 1:35.0 | than everything that there had been, |
| 1:36.7 | or I was going to not go to college and not have any specific direction. |
| 1:41.8 | So I definitely was very emphatic about getting to college, and I went to the |
| 1:45.6 | college that gave me the most financial aid, essentially, because, again, aforementioned, not any |
| 1:50.9 | money. And that was quite a journey. And I turned out I actually did really great in college |
| 1:56.5 | and not great in high school, because I was really bored in high school. I knew from the time I was 12 years old sitting in a vet's office, |
| 2:04.2 | and there was a Time magazine that they had just discovered Ramses the Second's tomb in Egypt. |
| 2:09.8 | And I said, that's it. That's for me. |
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