Tanya Janca: Find a community who supports you. [CEO] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Tanya Janca, CEO and Founder of We Hack Purple, sits down to talk about her exciting path into the field of cybersecurity. Trying several different paths in high school, she soon found she was good at computer science. When it came to picking a college, she knew that was the field she wanted to get into. After college, she was able to use her skills to work at a couple of different organizations, eventually getting into the Canadian government. While there, she held the position of CISO for the Canadian election in 2015 when Justin Trudeau was elected, but she knew she wanted to try something new. She switched from programming to security and after working at Microsoft as a presenter, she eventually found that she wanted to start her own company, saying "at first it was just me presenting, but now we have community members present to each other and it's just been really beautiful to see that grow." She hopes that with her and her community's help, nobody is left feeling unsafe when it comes to being online. 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.
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1:58.6	Visit z-scaler.com slash Zero zero trust AI. Hi, I'm Tanya Jainka, and I am the CEO and founder of We Hack Purple, an online community for people who really want to make secure software and new friends. Both of my aunts and three out of my aunts and three out of five of my uncles are computer scientists.
2:37.0	And my uncle made me a computer when I was quite young in the 80s that would say,
2:44.2	hello, Tanya, I'm Mikey.
2:46.6	And we could type things in,
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