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Kyla Guru: You are a key piece to our national security. [Education] [Career Notes]

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this special encore episode, where we are jjoined by Founder and CEO of nonprofit Bits N' Bytes Cybersecurity Education and undergraduate student at Stanford University, Kyla Guru shares her journey from GenCyber Camp to becoming a cybersecurity thought leader. Seeing the need. for cybersecurity education in her own community spurred Kyla into action engaging our civilian population in understanding their role in the cybersecurity space. Kyla recommends putting yourself out there: taking courses, getting more knowledge, getting internships, meeting people and going to conferences. Kyla thinks her generation has an inquisitive mind and feels that is where advocacy and education come in with cybersecurity. She shares for any young person "thinking about maybe starting something in security, this is definitely the time to do so." And, we thank Kyla for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:09.7

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0:16.9

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0:36.6

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0:41.8

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0:46.7

Register now at Datasek AI 2025.com backslash cyberwire.

0:52.7

Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire.

1:01.3

I'm Kyla Guru.

1:06.5

I am the founder and CEO of Bits Invite Cybersecurity Education.

1:10.4

And I'm also a student at Stanford University.

1:31.8

I grew up in a house where my dad is an accountant by trade. 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

1:38.1

world. And I saw that growing up, especially with my dad and the conversations that he would have at

1:44.0

the dinner table,

1:45.5

a lot of what he used to do in his work was fraud examination in, like, auditing and in accountancy.

1:52.7

So just from hearing him speak about those things at the dinner table, I was really intrigued us to see,

1:59.4

like, what even is cybersecurity. I was interested

2:03.1

in, you know, coding and like comps I. And then the summer before I entered high school, I took

2:09.6

that first step and I was like, okay, I'm going to sign myself up for a Jen Cybercamp

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