--- title: "Meet the Defenders: The People Behind Cybersecurity at Commvault | Blog | Commvault" type: "BlogPosting" language: "en-US" url: "https://www.commvault.com/blogs/meet-the-defenders" date: "2026-10-29T09:00:46-04:00" modified: "2026-10-28T13:54:27-04:00" description: "Behind every security control is something even more important: people." image: "https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Thumbnail_Blog_Ransomware-Protection-AirGap-2025-1.png" authors: - name: "Priscilla Fong" jobTitle: "Manager, Security Culture, Commvault" breadcrumbs: - name: "Commvault Home" url: "https://www.commvault.com/" - name: "Blogs" url: "https://www.commvault.com/blogs" - name: "Meet the defenders" --- # Meet the Defenders: The People Behind Cybersecurity at Commvault When most people think about cybersecurity, they picture technology: firewalls, alerts, code, and maybe the occasional person in a hoodie staring at a suspiciously green screen. --- But behind every security control is something even more important: **people**. --- During Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we wanted to bring that human side of security forward with the launch of **Meet the Defenders**, a series that introduces employees to the people working behind the scenes building secure products, exploring emerging risks, and helping customers understand how their information is protected. --- #### Security Careers Don’t Follow One Path --- One of the biggest takeaways from the series was just how different a career in cybersecurity can look. --- We explored roles across **Security Architecture, AI Security Architecture,** and **Customer Trust**, hearing directly from professionals about what their actual work looks like day to day. --- Their journeys were just as varied as their roles. --- One defender shared a path that started with development and hackathons before moving into security research and product security architecture. Another showed how a career spanning technology, customer success, and business relationships can lead naturally into Customer Trust. --- Different backgrounds. Different skills. The same goal: **building trust and making technology more secure.** --- #### What Does a Defender Actually Do? --- The series also helped answer a question we hear often: *What do cybersecurity professionals actually do all day?* --- The answer: It depends. --- A Security Architect might spend the morning threat modeling a new feature and the afternoon working with engineers to address potential weaknesses before they reach production. --- Someone working in Customer Trust may start with a customer question about encryption and end up bringing together Security, Compliance, Legal, and Sales to translate a complex technical issue into an answer the customer can confidently act on. --- And those working in AI Security are navigating an entirely new set of questions as organizations determine how to innovate with AI while managing emerging risks. --- Cybersecurity isn’t one job. It’s a team of very different disciplines solving interconnected problems. --- #### Curiosity Might Be the Most Important Security Skill --- There was another theme that kept appearing throughout the conversations: **curiosity**. --- Great defenders don’t simply accept that something works. They ask: *What could go wrong?* *What are we missing?* *What happens if someone uses this differently than we intended?* --- That mindset isn’t limited to people with “security” in their job title. --- Anyone who pauses before clicking an unexpected link, questions an unusual request, finds a smarter way to solve a problem, or speaks up when something doesn’t seem right is practicing the same kind of curiosity. --- #### Bringing Security Closer to Everyone --- Meet the Defenders wasn’t designed simply to introduce security roles. --- It was designed to make cybersecurity feel **more human, more accessible, and more connected to everyday work**. --- Because building a strong security culture isn’t only about teaching people what *not* to do. It’s about creating opportunities to understand the people protecting the organization, ask questions, exchange ideas, and see where each of us fits into the bigger picture. --- Cybersecurity Awareness Month gave us an opportunity to start those conversations. The challenge now is to keep them going. --- **Meet the people. Ask the questions. Stay curious. That’s how stronger security cultures are built.** --- [*Priscilla Fong*](https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscillalfong/) *is Manager, Security Culture, at Commvault.*