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Encore: Selena Larson: The Green Goldfish and cyber threat intelligence. [Analyst] (Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

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🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Cyber threat intelligence analyst Selena Larson takes us on her career journey from being a journalist to making the switch to industrial security. As a child who wrote a book about a green goldfish who dealt with bullying, Selena always liked investigating and researching things. Specializing in cybersecurity journalism led to the realization of how closely aligned or similar skills are required from an investigative journalist and a cyber threat intelligence analyst. Our thanks to Selena for sharing her story with us.

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Selina Larson. I am a cyber threat intelligence analyst at Dragos. We are an industrial cyber security company.

0:13.0

So when I was a kid, I really wanted to be an author,

0:22.0

and I remember writing in maybe second grade a book

0:28.4

quote unquote called the green goldfish it was about you know the story of green goldfish. It was about, you know, the story of a goldfish who was green instead of orange

0:38.0

and some of the struggles that he had faced in bullying with his peers and stuff.

0:42.0

And as I kind of got a little bit older, he had faced and bullying with his peers and stuff.

0:43.0

And as I kind of got a little bit older,

0:45.2

I was like, I don't know about a writer,

0:46.9

but I'm thinking more maybe like a journalist,

0:49.6

because that sounds exciting, you know,

0:51.0

you can like investigate things, you can do research, you can, you know, meet lots of different people and travel the world and have some cool stories.

1:00.0

So I ended up going to journalism school.

1:03.1

I took my undergrad at Arizona State University

1:05.7

and I became a journalist.

1:07.7

And I kind of bounced around, actually, a little bit.

1:17.0

And then when I moved to San Francisco, seven or eight years ago, it was like, oh, well, technology is the news here.

1:20.0

Like, I am a news reporter.

1:22.0

In fact, that's what I said in my interview. I said, I am a news reporter in fact that's what I said in my interview I said I am a news

1:24.0

and in San Francisco technology is the news and I got super lucky because I you know

1:29.4

was thrown into tech at a very exciting time,

1:33.2

certainly as cybersecurity and privacy issues

1:36.8

were becoming a lot more sort of mainstream,

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