I started cybersecurity as a way to decompress from med school in year four. It didn't stay a hobby. Two years and 13 certifications later, it's a parallel discipline: SOC operations and cloud security, built alongside a full clinical training track, not instead of it.

My job is to catch what's happening before it becomes an incident: triaging alerts, tracing a phishing email back to its indicators, spotting the misconfigured cloud resource before it's exploited. Medicine taught me to chase a problem to its root cause and never call it solved on a hunch. That same discipline is why I'd rather flag the alert that turns out to be nothing than miss the one that isn't.