Security News > 2024 > April > Thinking outside the code: How the hacker mindset drives innovation

In this Help Net Security interview, she discusses the hacker mindset and its impact on cybersecurity.

She explores the significance of ethical hacking skills in cybersecurity strategies, emphasizing the role of bug bounty programs in fortifying cyber defenses and fostering innovation within tech teams.

How vital are ethical hacking skills in modern cybersecurity strategies?

In our era, bug bounty programs are a way for companies like Intel, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta to offer a reward to hackers for finding software bugs or design failures - ones that even these huge, well-funded companies with top tier engineers, missed in their own security reviews.

How does the hacker mindset foster innovation within tech teams, especially in software development and data science?

"The hacker mindset has a healthy disrespect for limitations. It enjoys challenging the status quo and looking at problems with a"what if" mentality: "what if a malicious actor did this?" or "what if we look at data security from a different angle? This pushes tech teams to think outside the code, and explore more unconventional solutions.

News URL

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/04/17/keren-elazari-hacker-mindset-innovation/