For cybersecurity professionals like Dominika Zerbe-Anders, cyber human risk partner and solution owner at KPMG Australia, opportunities for growth have been instrumental in maintaining her own long-term career in cybersecurity. At KPMG, she has been given opportunities to take on new challenges every few years, contributing to her professional development and job satisfaction.
“That’s what keeps me interested. It feels like every three or four years I’ve had a different career at KPMG,” Zerbe-Anders says. “Three years ago, with one of the most amazing leaders that I worked with, we identified that we weren’t doing a lot in the human risk space of cybersecurity. So, I was able to apply for and get seed funding to bring in a whole new service in that human risk management space. It then went global …and it’s now been very successful in market. That was one of those opportunities where I saw we weren’t doing anything in the space and I put my hand up and said, ‘I would like to lead this’, and the firm was really happy to invest and back me.”
“Last year as well, I took a slightly different approach. I moved departments to try help grow and amplify one of the cyber teams here. So, it’s really about being able to continuously move directions, continue to grow, and bring in new people, as opposed to always doing the same thing over and over.”
