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My Job: Dr Lubna Luxmi Dhirani on her role educating people on the growing threat facing global tech

Dr Lubna Luxmi Dhirani: 'It is important to understand that cybersecurity is everyone's job, even a smallest vulnerability if exploited has the potential to cause huge financial, data-loss and even put human lives at risk.'

For some people, the career path is signposted early. In the case of Dr Lubna Luxmi Dhirani, the source of her life’s passion was revealed at an exceptionally young age. “One of my earliest memories is of visiting my father’s research lab after school hours and seeing him working on a computer.” 

She was only four years old, but clearly fascinated by the PC’s jumble of plastic and wires, and wanted to type words on the keyboard. Her father encouraged her interest in the subject, and by age 12 she was regularly taking computers apart and putting them back together again.