CyberCap Interview: Anne-Marie Faber (Sercle)

A CyberCap interview with Anne-Marie Faber, executive vice-president of CyberEco and founder of Sercle, on shifting cybersecurity from a reactive, defensive posture toward one built around resilience and readiness, given that budgets and staffing will never be sufficient to stop every threat. She traces her entrepreneurial drive to an entrepreneurial family and describes repeated failure as proof of proximity to success. Asked about CyberCap's new program for vulnerable young adults, she argues cybersecurity careers suffer from a visibility gap beyond ethical hacking, and encourages newcomers to build their own non-linear profile inside a field wide enough to hold several careers. She discusses how her Indigenous identity shapes a more collective, seven-generations view of cybersecurity as shared societal infrastructure rather than an organization-by-organization problem, and pushes for more people-buying, not just funding, of Canadian and Quebec cybersecurity startups. She flags fragmented, siloed spending across similar initiatives as a real weakness, contrasts North America's red-team-heavy culture with Europe's stronger blue-team events, and closes arguing that by 2035 the central challenge and opportunity is bringing a genuinely collective, cross-sector view to a field still too often confined to individual organizations.