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Hi, my name is Selina Larson. I am a cyber threat

intelligence analyst at Dragos. We are an industrial cybersecurity

company. So when I was a kid, I really wanted to be an author and I remember writing in maybe second grade a book quote-unquote

called the Green Goldfish.

It was about you know the story of a goldfish who was green instead of orange and some of the struggles that he had faced and bullying with his peers and stuff. And as I kind of got a little bit older I was like I don't know about a writer but I'm thinking more maybe like a journalist because that sounds exciting you know you can like investigate things you can do research you can you know meet lots of different people and and travel the world and have some cool stories so I ended up going to journalism school I took my undergrad at Arizona State University and I became a journalist and I kind of bounced around actually a little bit.

And then when I moved to San Francisco, seven or eight years ago, it was like, oh, well, technology is the news here. Like, I am a news reporter. In fact, that's what I said in my interview. I said, I am a news reporter and fact that's what I said in my interview I said I am a news reporter and

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

into tech at a very exciting time, certainly as cyber security and privacy issues were, you know, becoming a lot more sort of mainstream, I feel like, especially when we're talking about a lot of these like social networks and platforms.

So I ultimately became a cybersecurity reporter at CNN and at the time you know I like my

job I thought it was interesting but I felt that as a journalist unless you have like you

know a very specific sort of defined beat you kind of have to be like a jack of all

trades and a master of none if that makes any sense.

And cybersecurity isn't just, you know, a beat in and of itself.

There's a lot of different sort of sub-sectors in security and of course there's industrial

cybersecurity. So I became particularly insecurity and of course there's industrial cyber security.

So I became particularly interested in that after writing about it and kind of decided that, you know,

this is something that really interests me. I feel like I could you know really

dive in here and become you know a subject matter expert on industrial cybersecurity I feel

like the skills that I have as journalists would be you know applied really well in this field and so I kind of you know

just decided to sort of make the switch.

So in my role as an analyst I do a lot of you know research and reporting in fact it's kind of it's kind of interesting how you know closely aligned or you know the similar skills required from a

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