Marene Allison explains why military veterans excel in cybersecurity. They bring a sense of duty and mission that translates into persistence and purpose, treating the work as more than just a paycheck.
That's great. Maybe one follow-up. We've had several military veterans on our team, and I love, especially the newer ones that have come, you know, across to the private sector, helping them explore their experiences and pull out of them maybe something of value that they didn't realize it translated into the corporate world. What have been some of your biggest aha moments or surprises of talent from that community that was very applicable in cyber that maybe it wasn't intuitive up front?
So one of the things is, and it's not just military, but military comes with it, is a sense of duty and mission.
Mm-hmm. Yep.
Right. And I tell folks, when I was 17 and raised my right hand on the plain at West Point and said I would defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic, When I retired from J&J, I was doing the exact same mission. It's about the mission. You get a cyber hunter that is a military person, they're not gonna stop, because it's just like they're in the military, and they're looking, and they're hunting, and they're gonna do the forensics till they figure it out. Where someone who's just doing it for a job may not have that same drive and mission orientation.
