Mahira Ali is a scientist at the Department of Cyber Security Technologies (CST) at TNO. She works on advancing autonomous cyber resilience and supply chain management. With expertise in monitoring, detection, and artificial intelligence (AI), she is dedicated to increasing autonomy in defence and resilience through the explainable use of AI. Driven by a desire to shift the balance in the ongoing race between cyber attackers and defenders, she aims to create proactive, sustainable, intelligent systems that help break the cycle of reactive cybersecurity.