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I'm Kylo

I'm Kyla Guru. I am the founder and CEO of Bitz Invite Cybersecurity Education and I'm also a student at Stanford University. I grew up in a house where my dad is an accountant by trade and my mom is a

biochemist.

So I was kind of always surrounded by math and science,

always driven in the importance of those two things in the world.

And I saw that growing up, especially with my dad in the world and I saw that growing up especially with my dad and the conversations that he would have at the dinner table a lot of what he used to do in his work was fraud examination in like auditing and in accountancy so just from hearing him

speak about those things at the dinner table I was really intrigued us to see like what

even is cyber security. I was

interested in you know coding and like comp sigh and then the summer before I

entered high school I took that first step and I was like okay I'm gonna sign

myself up for a Jen and it was at Gen Cyber that something just

switched inside of me it was that that light that flicked inside of me and then also the combination of

learning at that camp that almost 90% of cyber attacks are due to human error alone.

It was those two kind of facts that I think

amalgamated into what became bits and bites and bites

and bites in by the cybersecurity.

Because when I came home, I saw in my own community that we were having these identity theft cases and social engineering attacks, but there wasn't really like proactive conversation happening to stop the next attack from happening and to engage our civilian population in understanding their role in the cybersecurity space and how do they protect themselves and why is that so important?

So I kind of made it my mission to start those conversations and for me I thought starting

it on the elementary school level would be the easiest kind of way since I was a

student at the time so I kind of thought that I would work inside of the system to

make some change. I went to Gen Cyber for a second year for the advanced camp. I got more

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