In this episode, Melanie sits down with Andrea D'Elia, cybersecurity leader, international speaker, and Chief Information Security Officer, to talk about her unconventional path into cyber threat intelligence. After becoming a victim of cybercrime herself, Andrea taught herself cybersecurity from the ground up, diving into hacker playbooks, digital forensics, ransomware mitigation, and emerging threats like virtual SIM swapping. What started as a personal search for answers turned into a full career pivot focused on protecting organizations and the public from sophisticated digital attacks. We get into what a cyber threat intelligence expert actually does, how thinking like an attacker helps stop cybercrime, the realities of ransomware and digital risk, breaking stereotypes as a woman in a male-dominated field, and how to build credibility in tech. It’s a conversation about resilience & reinvention.