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Limor Kessem: Be an upstander. [Security Advisor] [Career Notes]

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security Limor Kessem says she started her cybersecurity career by pure chance. Limor made a change from her childhood dream of being a doctor and came into cybersecurity with her passion, investment, discipline, and perseverance. Limor talks about how we must tighten our core security and at the same time we allow innovation to help us move forward with the times. She's been fortunate to have been able to stand up for others and has had others support her. She said that is very motivating and has allowed her to really explore every possible thing in her career that she can contribute without limiting herself to a certain role. We thank Limor for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My name is Lamar Kessim, and I'm an executive security advisor at IBM Security.

1:05.9

When I was a young girl, you know, like a lot of us as children, we wanted to be a doctor and we wanted to be a firefighter.

1:13.6

We wanted to have these core professions where I think what ruled everything that we talked about as children.

1:19.6

So I definitely wanted to be a doctor or a teacher.

1:22.6

I did study microbiology and then I went into naturopathic medicine.

1:28.5

I ended up really liking that and studying that.

1:32.5

But lo and behold, that's not what I do today.

1:39.8

I started my cybersecurity career by what I call pure chance, but I don't want to make anyone think that they just need to get lucky to get into cybersecurity or to any other domain that they end up really loving.

1:52.7

So I think that opportunity has to be met with something on the other side.

1:56.7

And time and again, I saw others that joined by chance into cybersecurity.

2:01.6

But they brought skills with them to the table.

2:03.6

They brought passion, investment, discipline, perseverance.

2:07.6

Those are some of the things that I started out with.

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