Women doing unprecedented things in cyber, security, and intelligence — and the stories that got them there.
From Dumb Ways To Get Hacked
In cybersecurity, the most dangerous thing in the world is called a zero day.
It's a vulnerability nobody knew existed. There's no patch for it. No defence. No playbook. Nobody saw it coming.
And the thing about a zero day? By the time you realise it's there, it's already changed everything.
These women are zero days. And these are their stories.
"These women already made it. They're already in the room. They're already doing the work. We're just finally telling those stories."
No empowerment speeches. No panels about leaning in. No cupcakes.
Zero Day Women tells the stories of women who built the thing, broke the thing, or found what nobody else was looking for — in cybersecurity, national security, intelligence, and the spaces in between.
Paths nobody had mapped. Backgrounds nobody expected. Work that matters and doesn't get enough airtime.
A new show from Dumb Ways To Get Hacked — same family, different side of the story.
The real technical work — detection engineering, threat intelligence, incident response, policy, research. Explained properly, not dumbed down.
Career paths that don't look like the LinkedIn playbook. Art teachers turned IAM leads. DV survivors turned threat intelligence architects. Routes nobody mapped.
Perspectives shaped by experience that the standard pipeline doesn't produce. The things you only notice when you've had to look harder than everyone else.
A woman who went from teaching art to managing identity and access for one of the biggest organisations in the country.
A woman who took what she learned surviving domestic violence and turned it into a threat intelligence framework used at a national level.
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