Angel Mosley is equipping companies to mitigate cybersecurity risks.
Mosley is a cybersecurity consultant and risk management professional who was first inspired to join the field while at Jackson State University. She scored an internship with Virgin Records and BMG Distribution and was living the dream, she told AFROTECH™. She even had a chance to be around entertainers such as Janet Jackson and Ice Cube.
Ultimately, her interest in the field would be sparked after wandering into a computer room.
“When you’re in college, you think you can ask anybody anything. So I was like, ‘Hey, how much money did you make when you graduated from college?’ [And they said], ‘Oh, we graduated making $60,000 a year,’ which back then was a lot of money. Right now, it’s still good money,” Mosley explained. “But I was like, $30,000, $60,000. I’ve always liked computers. I went back to school, changed my major to computer science, and never looked back.”
She graduated from Jackson State University in 1994 and has done everything under the sun in the field, whether it was crawling under a desk to connect cables or working second shift at a bank in a computer room. She later…
