Hi I’m Perly At 16 I was the third largest artist on Pinterest Was published in two nation-wide anthologies for art And one for poetry Worked with top creators and brands like stabilo Then I quit art Switched to cybersecurity And at 18 I beat 750+ industry professionals at my first CTF with Target Then 100 more at AWS Now idk what I’m gonna do next, but I’ve met the coolest ppl doing crazy things who inspire me to try and take a swing (and monetize it this time lol🥲) + best of all, I make art again

hey man. if you run php. turn it off.

Nearly 200 subs in 30 days 🥳 Let’s make it 2k by December

plz tell me someone else gets how cool this is

New look for cyber bytes ⋆｡°✩

Starting a company just so I can do insane stuff like this

Officially joining the @Lovable creator program! I applied for creators program to do a deep dive on how to use it securely - similar to my supabase write ups After those videos went nuts, I decided to expand the stack and my goal is to do full write ups on as many of these tools as possible :D

the opencode breach is a perfect example of why every blue team needs to seriously consider how they are maximizing AI for defense Bec the attackers sure will be maximizing on offense

When people talk about AI for cyber defense, y’all know the AIs don’t actually fight each other right? There isn’t some holy war between swarms.

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I think the opencode breach is a perfect example of why every blue teamer needs to seriously consider how they are maximizing AI for defense Bec the attackers sure will be maximizing on offense

Thinking of changing my username…

I started making content 8 ish months ago purely focused on cybersecurity education Over the past couple of months I’ve been experimenting to slowly shift my content to attract a broader and more experienced technical audience I was nervous at first that my numbers would take a dive BUT these videos are actually proving to be some of my highest engaging ones :D

If you could only recommend someone read one book, what would it be? (Gotta beef up my book collection :D)

Thoughts on the hugging face doc I haven’t finished it completely, but it’s interesting to see your industry be commercialized for mass consumption/entertainment (to put it very bluntly) Like a year ago I would tell someone I worked in cybersecurity and they’d look at me like 👁️👄👁️ Now my friends and family are telling me about news they saw or asking me questions Wild times yall

I turned my portfolio into a keychain! 🦈 I’ve been attending so many networking events lately, and wanted to make a more memorable way to share my info So I made a shark 🦈 It’s a little clay charm with an NFC sticker so ppl can scan and save my contact But way more fun than a QR code or biz card :)

This year I had to say no to a huge opportunity I had been dreaming about for a year. Because of religion. A few months ago I got accepted to the US Cyber Combine. Which is the boot camp for the US Cyber Team. It’s an intensive program designed to help you prove yourself ahead of draft day in October. Unfortunately, both final competitions, the final exams if you will, were on the Sabbath. And while the program was so kind to try and work with me, Ultimately I decided to withdraw since most competitions I’d compete in if I made the team would also be on the Sabbath. This isn’t the first time the Sabbath has prevented me from participating in these opportunities. Hackathons, BSides NY, conferences - all on or over the Sabbath. Many might see religion, then, as a disadvantage, and so did I until last year. I felt like I was missing so many opportunities! Now I don’t know what I would do without it (and THAT change is a story for another time ;) 25 hours, no screens, no work, just reconnecting. Sometimes the hardest opportunities to walk away from are the ones that remind you what matters most. So as we go into Shabbat in a few hours here in NYC, Shabbat shalom!

Does anyone know who runs socials/partnerships @perplexity_ai ? @cameronstow 👀

Excited to read over the weekend! Beautifully made - thank you so much @stripepress ⋆⭒˚.⋆

I think the age of the non technical security practitioner is dead We live in a time where everyone is building What used to be limited to just developers is now open to everyone So practitioners need to be the ones to understand the deeper implications and risks That means you need to fundamentally understand how the technology works Because everyone is counting on you to be the expert in the room Now if you say, what about analysts? Or other historically non technical roles? (Excluding for now GRC) I think that will be replaced Not solely by ai, as the ai soc companies will have you believe But by the fact that in the future, the concept of detecting and be reactive for alerts will be a thing of the past (mostly) So not only can ai replace the traditional analyst rn, I don’t think that role will exist at all really That’s also why I so firmly believe security education need to drastically change like rn Or our line of defense around critical infrastructure will be thinner than a slice of cheese

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