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Hackers Are the Future of Cybersecurity…
                                           By Keren Elazari , ASIS International



            Even before the age of the internet, you could always tell which young girls and boys were going to grow
            up to be engineers. They were the ones disassembling all the clocks, radios, and other electrical gadgets
            in  their  houses,  vexing  their  parents.  They  were  the  ones  building  the  earliest  computers  in  their
            basements, with no other goal than to see if they could make the thing work – and then see if they could
            make it work faster.

            In the current technology era, you can identify many future cybersecurity experts in much the same way.
            They are the ones who are figuring out how to disrupt traditional systems, to slip unnoticed into networks
            or to create new pathways for information. In other words, they are hackers.

            Obviously not all hackers choose to use their craft for positive purposes. However, those who do provide
            a set of cybersecurity skills that are unmatched for their ability to solve problems, eliminate vulnerabilities,
            and prevent threats from becoming catastrophes.

            Keren Elazari understands this perspective much better than most. From a young age she saw herself
            as a hacker who uses her role to create better systems and improve outcomes. Throughout her career
            she  has  brought  her  hacker  point  of  view  to  bear  on  strengthening  network  security  for  dozens  of
            organizations, based on the premise that hackers can identify vulnerabilities and solve tech problems
            better than anyone else.

            Today, as a cyber security analyst, author, and researcher, Elazari has built an impressive roster of
            accomplishments. In her 2014 TED talk, "Hackers are the Immune System of the Internet", she shares
            her point of view about the vital necessity of working with hackers to build up the strongest possible cyber






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