For the past eight years, Ana has been a cyber professional consulting to Federal Government and Defence clients. Ana previously worked in event sales and hospitality management for almost a decade, but took the leap into cyber security and never looked back, successfully transferring her leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.  Ana completed a PhD in cyber security strategy, entitled 'Educational pathways to national cyber resilience: the Australian story' (ANU, 2020); the thesis focused on growing Australia's future cyber workforce by enhancing its pipeline. She argued for strengthened higher and vocational cyber security education, but also for the need to drive more interest in STEM in ...