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Hannah Kenney: Focused on people. [Risk] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, News, Daily News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Manager in BARR Advisory's Cyber Risk Advisory Practice, Hannah Kenney, shares her journey from never considering technology as a career to having it click in an informations systems class in college. After noticing she was the only one in the room who enjoyed the lecture, Hannah knew she wanted to go down the technology route. In talking about her work, Hannah describes it as creative problem solving. She hopes "people see me as someone who viewed cybersecurity and risk as something that is focused on people first and foremost." We thank Hannah for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.2

My name is Hannah Kenny.

1:04.4

I am a manager in bar advisory cyber risk advisory practice.

1:16.2

I always have been extremely curious.

1:19.7

I'm always someone who has wanted to know how things work.

1:26.5

I'm the kind of person who will spend a few hours researching something that I've just learned about for the first time. But when I was a kid, I was very

1:28.8

interested in other people and really just interacting with others. I thought maybe I wanted

1:35.8

to be a doctor or a nurse at one point. I thought maybe I wanted to be an actress so I could

1:41.0

speak to lots of people at the same time and thought I might want to be an artist.

1:45.8

I had a lot of ideas about what it was I wanted to do. None of them involved technology or

1:52.5

cybersecurity in the slightest. I think it's really unfortunate actually that no one ever

2:00.5

brought it up, that that was something that I could

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