From TV news to cybersecurity: the 5 steps I took to completely change careers

Looking for work-life balance, better pay, and a day shift, this former journalist made a successful career change to cybersecurity.

If you told me five years ago that I’d be working today as a cybersecurity strategist at Splunk—and cohosting a podcast on cyber threats—I wouldn’t have believed a career change like that was even possible. Back then, I was a local TV news producer in Kentucky working the overnight shift and other than  occasionally resetting my home router, I didn’t know much about computers or the internet.