Turning a Cyberattack into a Career with Cecile Mengue

What happens when getting hacked leads you to a whole new career? In this episode of The Flex Forward Podcast, Nic Espanet talks with Cecile Mengue about her journey into cybersecurity. Cecile started with a degree in criminal justice. After she became the victim of a cyberattack, she wanted to learn how hackers worked. That curiosity grew into a new career. Cecile shares how she went back to school, learned cybersecurity, worked with large companies, and became an ethical hacker. She also talks about what it was like to start over in a new field and how practice helped her grow. Today, Cecile works in offensive security and helps companies find weak spots in their systems before bad hackers do.