Ranjeeta Rani Senior Security Engineer at KONE
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anjeeta Rani’s cybersecurity career has
CYBERSECURITY THE PERFECT ROLE
taken her from the frying pan to the
She adds: “There is always so much to do in this
freezer, metaphorically speaking. After
space and that keeps your interest high. For someone
almost two decades of study and work
who strives to do something different each day and
in one of the world’s hottest countries,
work on challenges, cyber is the perfect field. At the
India, in January 2022 she moved to one of the
end of the day I am proud knowing the work we do
coldest, Finland, where she works as a senior security
makes the world more secure.”
engineer with Kone. She acknowledges that her fascination with, and She graduated with a Bachelor of Technology
commitment to, the industry do make it difficult to
in Electrical, Electronics and Communications
maintain a good work/life balance but says, “With
Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
experience it does become a little easier, and the key
University in 2008 and got into cybersecurity by
is to prioritise and do time management.
chance in her first job after graduation, when graduates were allocated different roles.
“Another important approach is to really disconnect mentally when you are off work. For me, tracking
Rani was, she says, quite ignorant of cybersecurity
things on a tool that keeps my to-do list helps me do
as a career at that point, but has stayed in the
that. Otherwise I have found myself many times still
industry ever since and has no doubt she made the
thinking about work when away from it.”
right choice. “What kept my interest going was just how vast the domain is. No matter how long you are
Rani credits her mentors with having played a
working in it you will always have new challenges to
significant role keeping her in the industry, saying she
deal with every day.”
has had “many good mentors who helped me decide what I want to pursue in cybersecurity.”
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