Ivy Nguyen, Senior Manager of Security Awareness at General Mills, studied Computer Science and started her professional career as a web developer. But, as fate would have it, later in her career, Nguyen was recruited into security through a connection in the Asian Leader Network at General Mills.
“Security was not where I pictured my career going at the time, but the more I spoke with my personal network and I spent time speaking with those from within security, I found a lot of common ground between my skillset and saw the opportunity to bring change to security,” she recalls. Nguyen said she recognized many similar problems between her previous roles and roles within security, such as sorting through the noise of what was necessary or needed and what isn’t, as well as finding the best road toward success in an initiative.