“I would love to say I have one of those stories that I hear time and time again, like ‘I was a kid and I used to hack into things.’ That’s not my story,” says Lianne Potter, Head of SecOps at Asda, a large U.K.-based retail chain recently sold by Walmart.
Potter’s path to cybersecurity started on unconventional ground. After a decade-long career in wedding photography, Potter turned to her next passion: anthropology.