What I learned/Review of Pannelists!
David Tomasz
Who:
- Intelligence analyst for FBI
- one of the best hackers in the world!
Story:
- Caught major hacker after years of tracking!
Learned:
- Overcome learnin curves (even if its difficult)
- Have soft skills to become sucsessful (communicating, being nice, listening to instructions)
Tricia Mercer
Who:
- Chief of police/member of board of directors at cyber center of excellence
Story:
- Caught someone at their company stealing/selling data
- Ended all their acsess and took the finding to authorities
Learned:
- Always be curious/have aspirations for the future
- Mom said “study computers, they’re the future”
- Have passion for what you do and you will suceed!
Victor Nzeata
Who:
- Professor of cyber security at USD
- Founder of cyber brain academy
Story:
- Made a PowerShell script to find a ton of old lingering data to be able to get rid of it for security reasons
Learned:
- know your machines/understand how it works
- Test your security with real hackers/real techniques
- Same with games/websites test with real users to find the problems
Key Takeaways
- have ambition/passion for your work
- Have integrity for your work
- Honestly do your own stuff to learn
- Have soft skills
- Be nice
- Be teachable
- Be openminded
- Be a good leader
- Test your work with real users/test your security with real hackers
- Partisipate iin school classes/clubs to learn
- Hackathons
- Compsci classes
Future of Cyber Security
- Need for more specilization in cyber/compsci fields
- Be familular with AI/working with AI
- Cyber security is everywhere
- In the crowing technoogical future
- 0-day vullnerabilities (getting website stolden)
- need for understanding cyber secutiry to protect your intelectual property/work
- Ethical hackers are a need
- to test the security of code with actual tools/intent
- Need to understand your computer
- Learn how to fix the issues
- Learn how your computer functions to fix problems
Plan for using these takeaways
- Learning/engaging more in coding stuff at school
- hackathons
- coding clubs
- CSP tutoring
- Watching videos and asking advanced students (profetionals/CSA students) to learn more about coding
- Focus on refining my soft skills
- Practicing public speaking, preping more for live reviews!
- Learn more abotut cyber security as a posible carear asperation + to protect my own code and security
Proof!
