CyberScape Africa Magazine Q2 2019 | Page 39

QUICK CYBER SCAPE AFRICA | Q2 2019 WITH SIMBIAT OZIOMA Up close and personal with Simbiat, on her life inside and outside cybersecurity Your job? My job entails threat intelligence, malware analysis, vulnerability and risk assessment and cybersecurity awareness training to customers. Feel good activities? Hmmmm!!! Talking to people. I love when I am able to talk to people. It eases of stress for me. Basically, I feel good when I am able to express myself. Your life mantra? There will be bad days. Make sure your bad days do not take over the better part of you. Never stop believing in your dreams! Your inspiration? The urge to make a difference. I love to stand out and I want to be able to look back and tell myself “I am proud of you” Best part of your job? If not in cybersecurity, where would you be? Interacting! I don’t have to sit all day on my screen talking to myself. I am able to interact with my colleagues and share ideas and thoughts. I honestly haven’t thought about where I would have been if not in cybersecurity but well, I’ll probably be in engineering (maybe) because I really can’t picture myself in a different field. Biggest dream in life? My biggest dream is to impact lives. I want to be able to inspire a lot of women. I mean! There is nothing as refreshing as people looking up to you. by SIMBIAT OZIOMA 39