Cybersecurity and Social Media Influencing Pair Perfectly
Cybersecurity and Social Media Influencing Pair Perfectly
Publish Date: 2026-01-01 07:00:00
Source Domain: www.afcea.org
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Sarian moved to the United Kingdom for two years to help Ernest and Young build out their data protection and privacy arm before the comprehensive General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, came into play.
At the time, she had the urge to teach young people about cybersecurity, challenging her original undergraduate degree in elementary education. She turned to social media.
“I actually started doing all my stuff on TikTok, under the alias of ‘CyberSecurity Girl,’ because I was mortified of what people would think about me,” Sarian explained. “At the time, I was a director-level at a large global law firm, and I was like, ‘If these people find out that I’m on TikTok, like doing dances, trying to get people into a career in cyber, I don’t know what is going to happen.’ I found out I didn’t really care, because it worked.”
Her videos about how to be safe online were especially successful. Now, the cyber social media influencer has worked with NATO, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ABC and Good Morning America, and other organizations.
“I just want to educate the public,” Sarian told the cyber conference attendees. “I truly believe we are all so passionate about cybersecurity, but at the end of the day, we [in the cyber industry] probably are not the weakest link. It is the people that are not in this room that are the ones that need to understand how important cybersecurity is.”
