About Us

Cathy Olieslaeger

Founder, Principal Consultant

Born and raised in Belgium, Cathy Olieslaeger started her career in global communications and enterprise sales in the United States right after college. She worked for Belgacom North America, Orange Business, Verizon Business, Agio Inc. and CyberSaint Security in the NY Metro area and North Carolina before becoming an independent cybersecurity consultant.

Cathy founded The Triangle Net LLC with the vision of a world where cybersecurity is embedded in society’s educational and organizational practices, where social equality and meritocracy are the norm, and where all misfits are given an opportunity to reach their full potential. The Mission of The Triangle Net is to make a large-scale and immediate impact on the cybersecurity talent gap through collaboration, structural change, social engagement, and early education.

Cathy's purpose is to rewrite the people story in cybersecurity. Her podcast, Journey into Cybersecurity, and book, Cybersecurity for Everyone, are products to help democratize, demystify and humanize cybersecurity.

Cathy enjoys volunteering and is a founding board member of Tweens & Technology, a NC-based non-profit dedicated to early STEM and cybersecurity education.

Cathy is an eternal student of everything cyber and leadership. She enjoys reading all kinds of books. She absolutely loves and lives to travel with her two sons, family and friends and spend time with her Labrador.

Cathy lives by the motto taught by Brendon Burchard:

Live, Love, Matter.

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The primary and most urgent objective of The Triangle Net is to fight cybercrime as a collective movement. This fight cannot be won if we don’t address the talent gap.

The Mission of The Triangle Net is to make a large-scale and immediate impact on the cybersecurity talent gap through collaboration, structural change, social engagement and early education.

The Triangle Net connects people with learning, job & volunteer opportunities in real-time & without bias.

Everything starts with Why. Here's ours...

Watch this presentation given by Cathy Olieslaeger which breaks down the steps you can take to break into cybersecurity. This was based on lessons learned from her first 10 guests of her podcast called "Journey into Cybersecurity".

Watch this presentation given by Cathy Olieslaeger which highlights a growing domain in Cybersecurity: Integrated Risk Management. Cathy shares lessons learned from her work experience as Customer Success Director at CyberSaint Security and from the book on FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk) by Jack Freund & Jack Jones called "Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach". Cathy strongly believes this can be your edge if you wish to enter the cyber hero squad the unconventional way.