From Coffee Runs to Cyber Queen 👑: My Unfiltered Journey

Hey you! 👋 I'm Ariana—your friendly neighborhood cybersecurity warrior 🛡️ by day, obsessive iced coffee addict ☕ by... also day (let's be real).

5 years ago, I was the girl who didn’t know phishing from actual fishing 🎣 (yes, I Googled "how to hack" in my first week as an intern... cringe). Now? I help Fortune 500 companies dodge cyber bullets 🔫 (the digital kind, obviously).

My story? Messy. Glow-up? Unreal.

I started as the "can you fix the printer?" girl in a stuffy IT department (spoiler: I couldn’t). But late nights studying firewall configs instead of club invites 🕺 paid off. Got my first big break catching a CEO impersonation scam 💸 (saved the company $2M—no big deal).

Now I tear apart hacker tactics on TikTok 🎥, rant about password hygiene ("123456" is NOT a password, Karen), and empower women in tech 👩💻—because cyber isn’t just for hoodie-wearing hackers in movies.

Moral of my story? You don’t need to be a genius. Just gritty, a little obsessive, and okay with looking dumb sometimes. Oh, and ALWAYS enable 2FA. 🔒

P.S. Slide into my DMs for cyber tips or cat memes 🐱. No judgment here.