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Jamil Jaffer: You should run towards risk. [Strategy] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

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Tech News, News, Daily News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Senior Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships, and Corporate Development at IronNet Cybersecurity, Jamil Jaffer, shares how his interest in technology brought him full circle. Always a tech guy, Jamil paid he way through college doing computer support. Jamil went to law school and worked in various jobs in Washington DC including a stint in the newly-created National Security division of the Justice Department just after 9/11. When talking about adversity, Jamil notes, "Adversity has happened in life, but you gotta run at those things. To me, you know, I like risk. I think risk is something that a lot of people shy away from." We thank Jamil for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jemeel Jaffer.

1:01.7

I'm senior vice president at IronNet Cybersecurity for strategy, partnerships, and corporate development.

1:04.9

If you want the full detail title.

1:18.1

I come from a family where my dad came to the U.S. with a few hundred dollars in his pocket.

1:19.4

He didn't have a job.

1:23.1

He had a bachelor's degree, yes, but from the University of East Africa, Dar Islam, right?

1:26.7

We're ethnically Indian, but three generations of my family grew up in East Africa.

1:33.0

My dad got a job working first at the University of Toronto, then he moved to L.A.

1:34.2

And got a job at UCLA.

1:38.6

He was one of these people who just walked in and said, look, you want to hire me.

1:41.6

I'm going to work my butt off for you and I'm going to do good things. And both my mom and dad gave me that work addict.

2:00.2

I was, I'm a child of the 80s, and so in 1984 I got my first computer. It was a tandy,

2:18.2

TRS 80 color computer, the so-called trashach 80. 4K of onboard RAM, 4 kilobytes. We upgraded the 16 kilobytes, me and my dad. And we were the talk of the Rainbow Computer Club in Santa Monica. What are you going to do with 16K of onboard RAM? Oh, my God. It's so much memory, right? But I paid away through college and computer support. So I did computer support at UCLA for the life science department, for the athletics department.

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