June 10
Summary
Kyla Guru is a rising senior at Deerfield High School in Illinois, as well as the Founder & CEO of Bits n’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education, a national 501(c)(3) that partners with school districts and industry leaders like Facebook and Discovery Education, all in efforts to increase awareness, literacy, and fluency in privacy and cybersecurity.
Kyla initially explains her story on how she developed a deep interest in cybersecurity and how her curiosity led her to developing this interest into her passion. She mentions Gen Cybercamp, which is a cybersecurity camp organised at Purdue University, Indiana and all the useful lessons she learnt during her week spent. She further mentions about how the camp and a data breach at a local high school influenced her to start Bits n’ Bytes. As we dove deeper into the topic, Kyla explains why cybersecurity is important and ways we can prevent our details from getting exposed. She briefly mentions the ways we could implement basic security measures- creating strong passwords, not opening suspicious emails and keeping up to date with the news.
Key Questions
Why is cybersecurity important?
What are the ways that we could keep our data safe over the internet?
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00:00 - Introduction
00:14 - Start of the field trip
00:40 - About the presenter
00:55 - About Gen cybercamp
01:11 - How she developed an interest in cybersecurity
01:51 - Impact of Gen Cybercamp
02:46 - Human error: one of the main reasons for data breaches
03:20 - Impact in community
03:36 - Data breach at a local school
04:10 - How she founded Bits N’ Bytes
04:40 - About Bits N’ Bytes
05:03 - Why cybersecurity is important
05:56 - How to implement cybersecurity in our daily lives
06:54 - Conclusion
07:10 - Closing by Kyla
Resources
Bits N’ Bytes website - https://www.bitsnbytes.us.com/
Bits N’ Bytes socials - Kyla Guru(@gurudetective) Twitter
Kyla’s TED talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1OR8DxRlc0
GenCyber Camp Website - https://www.gen-cyber.com/
Data breach at local school article - https://news.wttw.com/2018/12/28/cps-ousted-ogden-principal-exposed-private-student-info-new-data-breach