Roya Gordon: Becoming a trailblazer. [Research] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

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Summary

Roya Gordon, a Security Research Evangelist at ICS cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks, started her career as an intelligence specialist in the U.S. Navy. After her time serving, Roya spent time as a Control Systems Cybersecurity Analyst at the Idaho National Laboratory and then took the role of Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager at Accenture. She shares her story after the NSA accepted her and then quickly diverted, creating a new path for Roya to follow. She shares the jobs she went after along the way, leading up to Nozomi Networks and how she wishes to be a trailblazer for young black women everywhere. She hopes to shape young women's minds on what the cybersecurity industry is actually like, in hopes that she can be a figure people look up to. We thank Roya for sharing her story.

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2:10.0	My name is
2:45.0	My name is Roya Gordon and I'm a security research evangelist. My mom used to always say I just talked too much I should be a lawyer and I actually liked that idea so in middle school and high school I was in pre-law magnet programs like I thought I was going to be a lawyer. I had no idea of what Cybert was, so my path was to be a lawyer.
2:50.0	After high school didn't end up going to college right away I joined the Navy. I was in
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