MCPS HSF - 8th annual high school cyber security competition. Want to help out?
Here are some bios of people who are hacking the planet. They used to be high schoolers, too, and understand how much work it is to get to where you want to be. Check out the dope stuff they listen to and are doing:
breadchris - ur so hacked
If you want to know my origin story, you can read about it here. I like to hack things. Come watch my cracked stream. I am working on building an open-source app to let you build your own blog and customize it. You can build how your site looks with AI!brady
I've been a security engineer for over 10 years. For the most part, my career choice wasn't planned; when I finished high school, I chose engineering through the process of elimination, and when I finished my degree, I actually got into security by accident. I think the only reason it worked out is that I never assumed I was good, I just kept trying to be better. Thanks to this stubbornness, I've built a lot of cool things over the years, some of which I can't discuss. But they're cool, I swear!Even though my musical taste is all over the place, my hacking music is mostly instrumental and rhythmic, often with simple and repetitive melodies that help my concentration.
quokka
I have been a security engineer for about five years. My career was a winding path; a majority of my decisions were influenced by money, particularly lack thereof. I went into CS because my middle school said I wasn't good at drawing, dance, or singing - so therefore computers was my "talent". I went with that up until college, when I met some really cool and smart people doing security and I had fun with them, so I decided to do that. Breaking into security was difficult for me because I had to make decisions that would lead to scholarships and grants and forgo internships that did not pay, regardless of how cool it was. I spent the beginning of my career being a QA engineer, a network analyst for the Fort Meade branch of the Department of Defense (wink), and finally things got spicy when I joined Spotify as a security engineer.To this day, I am still trying to make security palatable to developers by creating processes and tools that make sense for them to self service. I have been particularly focused on integrating dependency scanning and SAST scanning into their workflows so engineers can understand and interact with security themselves, instead of being prescribed security best practices without empathy and consideration of their workloads and deadlines. Security should be a bidirectional discussion.
I listen to whatever I feel like. I have a wide range of feelings. I love Naruto and I hope to live up to his scale of accomplishments by finding my own ninja way.