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Hi there. My name is Theresa Rothar and I am a GRC analyst

the Keeper Security. Keep her security. I wanted to be a performer and that's one of the reasons why I jump on the chance to do

podcasts and webinars and things like that because it gives me a chance to perform.

Yeah, I did plays and I would also write a lot too.

I wrote fan fiction before it was a thing. I wrote a Doctor Who fanfick when I was

oh my probably about 12 years old. I thought I was going to go into the arts as a kid. My didn't even

thinking about science or computers or anything like that. I actually didn't get the opportunity to go to college until later in life.

I had family issues that I took care of throughout my 20s and so I didn't enter university until I was in my 30s and I at first

thought I was just going to major in business at that point but then I started taking some math classes and I hadn't done

well in math in high school and I quickly figured out it was because of the way it

had been taught to me. In college I began excelling in it and I ended

up getting a bachelor's in math and computer science.

I got my bachelor's degree in 2011. We were right in the middle of the Great Recession and I had no professional network to speak of and no idea how to get a job.

So I kind of hit out in academia. I got an MBA, which really benefited me.

I was going to Wilmington University up here in Delaware and five more

classes I could get a second master's so I went and got a second master's and

management information systems. I fell on the cybersecurity really accidentally.

A cybersecurity company, actually a GRC company,

hit me up on up work because they needed somebody to write blogs and white papers and things like that.

I didn't even know a GRC was, but I really needed the money.

So I took the job and I started furiously Googling and I figured

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