Payal Chakravarty: Overcoming bias in the workplace. [Security and Risk] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 10 May 2026

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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Payal Chakravarty, Head of Product for Security and Risk from Coalition, sits down to share her story of working at several different organizations, including interning for IBM and Microsoft. After obtaining her master's degree, she worked with IBM a bit more closely and fell in love with one of the projects she was working on. Payal had a very interesting career path going from physical to virtual, virtual to cloud now, cloud to containers. She says that there is still some bias she has dealt with as a woman in her field, she says, "I think the way you handle it is you negotiate or you kind of calmly handle the situation, there's no ego involved." Payal shares that in working in this field you need to be in love with it, giving the advice that don't just choose a job because of the money or because it's cool, but because you feel connected to it as a profession. We thank Payal for sharing her story. 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.
0:11.3	And now a word from our sponsor, the Center for Cyber Health and Hazard Strategies, also known as CHS.
0:19.1	Looking for a graduate degree that will give you an edge on your professional career?
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0:50.9	Thank you. edu Hi, my name is Paiol Chakravati and I am the head of product for security and
1:03.8	Rescate Coalition.
1:16.7	Growing up, I always thought I would either be a doctor.
1:20.1	That's a profession I really respected.
1:22.8	Or I would be an architect who would be building buildings,
1:26.2	combine math and art together.
1:29.5	Because my interest was really in math, art, and biology.
1:31.4	Those were my three favorite subjects.
1:41.2	When I was in high school, I got intrigued with the evolution of computers.
1:47.3	This is back in the late 90s when it was an evolving area. Internet was just coming alive. So I got very intrigued by that and I was like, okay, this seems like a fun
1:52.9	place to tinker and understand and be hands on and build things. And that's how I got into
1:59.3	computer science and chose, like I was interested
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