When Monique Hart started building information security programs for enterprises, the label “security” wasn’t quite being used yet. “I started in security before it was thought of as security,” she laughs.
Hart originally went to college for electrical engineering. In the ‘90s, she got very interested in the idea of computer networking and started out in desktop support after pursuing her first certification as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), working her way up the ranks from there and finding herself in security leadership roles by the early 2000s.