Renee Forney, Director of ISSO Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) at Meta, found her passion for security through an early-career drive to code. After graduating college, Forney held roles in network implementation and administration for the Virginia Department of Health and with the Navy Mutual Aid Association, a veteran’s benefits organization. From these exposures to the healthcare and financial sectors, Forney learned firsthand the importance of cybersecurity.
“The data we were working with was very important, so being able to secure that information was key. Doing everything I could do to protect people’s data was very important to me personally, and I enjoyed doing that,” Forney says.