Fahmida Y Rashid was a fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. As an information security journalist, Rashid has spent over a decade analyzing news events and demystifying security technology for IT professionals, business managers, and consumers. As the senior managing editor at Decipher, she distils critical insights from current events. She believes that security requires an interdisciplinary approach and draws on ideas from various fields, including psychology, economics, and political science, to explain important concepts. She looks for relevant patterns in security datasets using R. She focuses on network operations and application development because they require in-depth understanding of the relevant technologies and workflows. Prior to launching Decipher, she wrote for various business and tech trade publications, including CSO Online, InfoWorld, eWEEK, Dark Reading, and the Christian Science Monitor. She honed her technical knowledge at CRN and PC Magazine by developing test plans and reviewing networking and security products. As a development editor for a publisher focused on software developers, she learned how to break complex topics into straightforward answers. Over the course of her career, she has drawn on her past experiences as a former developer, management consultant, network administrator, and product manager to clearly explain why everyone should care about security.