Kyla Guru
Keynote Speaker: CEO of Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education & GirlCon Conferences; Gen Z Cybersecurity Leader & Social Entrepreneur
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Kyla Guru Biography
At 22 years old, Kyla Guru brings to the stage her unique "Tales of a Security Supergirl." On stage, Kyla fuses together her experiences as a first-generation American, her insights from starting two nonprofit organizations, expertise from working as a threat hunter, and her visions for building a secure future for her generation and the next. She shares an unmatched energy with every audience and brings spirited inspiration to everything she does.
After her hometown experienced a cyberattack in which hundreds of social security numbers of local teachers were stolen and exposed, Kyla began studying the science of cyber-insecurity. Soon, she discovered one fact she could not ignore: nearly 90% of cyber issues are caused by human error. Galvanized to meet an unmet need, at 14, Kyla became the Founder and CEO of Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education (BNBCE). Now, BNBCE is an international 501(c)(3) that creates and distributes curriculum to classrooms and fosters partnerships with school districts, corporations, and educational platforms to empower cybersecurity training and awareness for vulnerable populations. Thus far, BNBCE has partnered with corporations like IBM, Verizon Media, and Facebook, training over 16,000 students internationally and bringing on eight national fellows to spread BNBCE’s mission nationwide.
One year into founding Bits N' Bytes Cybersecurity Education, Kyla recognized the lack of diverse representation within classrooms, conferences, and board rooms, and soon became the co-founder of GirlCon Conference, Chicago’s premiere tech conference that unites 700+ industry professionals and students annually to discuss bridging the gender gap in technology.
Kyla has championed her message of cybersecurity resilience on national and international stages including TEDxChicago, NIST’s NICE Conference, CyberSat, RSAC-USA, and RSAC Singapore 2019, as the youngest speaker to walk across security's largest stage. For her work, Kyla has been honored as Crain Chicago’s Top 50 in Tech, a John F. Kennedy Medal of Honor Recipient, a Global Teen Leader, a Harvard Book Prize Award winner, and has been named as one of the Top 100 Women Fighting Cybercrime.
Kyla is also a student at Stanford University studying Computer Science and International Relations, and has worked in security at Apple, MS-ISAC, CISA, and SpaceX, gaining experience across Threat Intelligence, Offensive Security, Consulting, Trust & Safety, and Artificial Intelligence. At Stanford, she has won national championships in the Collegiate Cyber Defence Competition (CCDC), Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC), and the Cyber 9/12 Policy Competition, and just completed her thesis in “Applying LLMs for Nation-State Cyber Attack Attribution” with Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.
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Kyla Guru Speaking Topics
Kyla will teach about protecting yourself, your assets, and your company online in an era of "Cyber-Insecurity,” giving tips and resources to navigate cybersecurity and privacy in the face of the advancing cybersecurity threat landscape. Kyla has spoken to parents about the best practices to protect children online and can speak about threat actors, their motivations, and how vulnerable demographics are targeted not only based on age, but also based on gender and race. In this, for parents, she will share tips on how to start the conversation about your child’s online safety rules and digital citizenship at the dinner table.
Sharing insights from her time at CISA and Apple Security Operations, Kyla will break down the international threat landscape by providing an in-depth analysis of the biggest players affecting the US. She will enrich the session with case-study examples and dive into motives and threats that could directly affect your business vertical. As Kyla does in every session, she will provide recommendations for strengthening security posture and skating ahead of the puck against the adversaries.
In the age of ChatGPT and generative AI models, Artificial Intelligence can now be used as our greatest tool to detect anomalistic behavior in dynamic threat environments--but it can also be our most intelligent adversary. Kyla will speak to the implications of AI to launch disinformation campaigns, the rise of deepfake technology (and its disproportionate impact on women and marginalized populations), and the potential use of AI for threat emulation, penetration-testing/offensive hacking, and reconnaissance.
Kyla uses her unique perspective of going through the education system to talk about what she sees for the future of cybersecurity education for youth, and, of course, strategies on how your organization can make radical change in securing the pipeline and our future. For educators, Kyla will share a “toolkit” for sparking interdisciplinary conversation about cybersecurity and privacy in your classroom, and fostering the ongoing culture of ethics and accountability that comes with the conversation. Kyla will focus on why cybersecurity is such a high-impact area and how “gen-zennials” are well fit to meet future cybersecurity workforce needs.
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Kyla Guru is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Cybersecurity, Technology, Internet, STEM Education, STEM, Female Leadership, Empowerment, Leadership, Women, Entrepreneurship, Business and Youth.
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Kyla Guru generally travels from Chicago, IL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
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Kyla Guru is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Cybersecurity, Technology and Internet. The estimated speaking fee range to book Kyla Guru for live events is $10,000 - $20,000, and for virtual events Below $10,000. Kyla Guru generally travels from Chicago, IL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Alyssa Carson, Rachel Wilson and Gitanjali Rao. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Kyla Guru for an upcoming event.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Kyla Guru Speaking Topics
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Protecting Yourself Online in an Era of Cyber-Insecurity
Kyla will teach about protecting yourself, your assets, and your company online in an era of "Cyber-Insecurity,” giving tips and resources to navigate cybersecurity and privacy in the face of the advancing cybersecurity threat landscape. Kyla has spoken to parents about the best practices to protect children online and can speak about threat actors, their motivations, and how vulnerable demographics are targeted not only based on age, but also based on gender and race. In this, for parents, she will share tips on how to start the conversation about your child’s online safety rules and digital citizenship at the dinner table.
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International Security & Threat Intelligence
Sharing insights from her time at CISA and Apple Security Operations, Kyla will break down the international threat landscape by providing an in-depth analysis of the biggest players affecting the US. She will enrich the session with case-study examples and dive into motives and threats that could directly affect your business vertical. As Kyla does in every session, she will provide recommendations for strengthening security posture and skating ahead of the puck against the adversaries.
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The Role of AI in Cybersecurity
In the age of ChatGPT and generative AI models, Artificial Intelligence can now be used as our greatest tool to detect anomalistic behavior in dynamic threat environments--but it can also be our most intelligent adversary. Kyla will speak to the implications of AI to launch disinformation campaigns, the rise of deepfake technology (and its disproportionate impact on women and marginalized populations), and the potential use of AI for threat emulation, penetration-testing/offensive hacking, and reconnaissance.
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Engaging Generation Z and Generation Alpha in Cybersecurity and Privacy: Shifting Representation, Building Effective Programs, and Increasing Retention in Security
Kyla uses her unique perspective of going through the education system to talk about what she sees for the future of cybersecurity education for youth, and, of course, strategies on how your organization can make radical change in securing the pipeline and our future. For educators, Kyla will share a “toolkit” for sparking interdisciplinary conversation about cybersecurity and privacy in your classroom, and fostering the ongoing culture of ethics and accountability that comes with the conversation. Kyla will focus on why cybersecurity is such a high-impact area and how “gen-zennials” are well fit to meet future cybersecurity workforce needs.
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Security Meets Usability: Imbedding Cybersecurity Awareness Training into Beautiful User Interface and Product Design
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Kyla Guru Reviews
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Episcopal Academy - Nov 14 2023
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Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - Jan 27 2023
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Evanta - Dec 09 2022
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Sophos Inc. - Oct 20 2022
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Electronic Privacy Information Center - Nov 05 2021
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