Nova Leah develops cybersecurity risk assessment solutions for connected medical devices. Based in Ireland, Anita Finnegan founded Nova Leah in 2015 and is an expert in Medical Device Cybersecurity.
Originally from Limerick, Anita grew up in Carrickmascross where she attended St Louis Secondary School, and has been living in Dundalk for the past twenty-one years.
'All of my third level education has been at Dundalk Institute of Technology,' she says. 'I originally started with engineering but my third level education was put on hold as I had my daughter at a very young age.'
She completed a degree in quality engineering and worked in the medical device industry.
She decided to take a year out to do a Higher Diploma in commuter science with the intention of combining it with her skills in the medical device industry. This found her back at DkIT under the supervision of Prof Fergal McCaffrey who was also the director of the Regulated Software Research Centre. With his encouragement she embarked on a PhD in 2013 and it was a chance remark at a conference which provided the lightbulb moment which not only saw her change the course of her studies but also led to the founding of Nova Leah.
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