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Teresa Rothaar: Outwork the competition. [Analyst] [Career Notes]

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Teresa Rothaar, a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) analyst at Keeper Security sits down to share her story, from performer to cyber. She fell in love with writing as a young girl, she experimented with writing fanfiction which made her want to grow up to be in the arts. After attending college she found that she was good at math, lighting the way for her to start her cyber career. Teresa moved to being a writer at Keeper, finding she wanted to spread out and try more, so she ended up becoming an analyst while still doing writing on the side. She quotes David Duchovny in an interview once, explaining how sometimes you need to keep your head down and outwork others. Teresa said this resonated with her, saying, "that's how I went from a foreclosure box on the porch to where I am now. I have a good job and, and I have a career and I have a really good career and I absolutely love it." We thank Teresa for sharing her story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire Hi there, my name is Teresa Rotherc, analyst the keeper security.

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Okay. analyst to Keeper Security. I wanted to be a performer

1:22.2

and that's one of the reasons why I jump on the chance to do podcasts and webinars and things like that,

1:30.3

because it gives me a chance to perform.

1:33.3

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

1:39.3

I wrote fanfiction before it was a thing.

1:42.3

I wrote a Doctor Who fanfic when I was, oh my, probably about 12 years old.

1:48.7

I thought I was going to go into the arts as a kid.

1:52.9

I wasn't even thinking about science or computers or anything like that.

1:59.8

I actually didn't get the opportunity to go to college until later in life.

2:04.9

I had family issues that I took care of throughout my 20s, and so I didn't enter university

2:11.3

until I was in my 30s. And I at first thought I was just going to major in business at that point.

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