Biography:Keren Elazari

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Keren Elazari
קרן אלעזרי
Keren Elazari at the SingularityU The Netherlands Summit 2016 (29027689414) (cropped).jpg
Keren Elazari in 2016
Born1980/1981 (age 42–43)[1]
Tel Aviv, Israel
EducationTel Aviv University (BA, MA)
Websitewww.k3r3n3.com

Keren Elazari (Hebrew: קרן אלעזרי‎; born 1980 or 1981[1]), also known as k3r3n3,[2] is an Israeli cybersecurity analyst, writer, and speaker.[3][4] She is a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center.[3][5]

Early life and education

Elazari was born in 1980 or 1981[1] and grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel.[2] Her father is Ami Elazari, the CEO of an electric company and a former member of the Israel Defense Forces intelligence group, Unit 8200. Her mother works for an airline.[4] Internet became available in Tel Aviv when Elazari was eleven or twelve years old, and she says she learned English and learned about hacking in online chat rooms.[2][4] In 1995, when she was 14, she saw the film Hackers.[2][1] She said the story, which portrayed a young group of hackers as heroes, served as inspiration for her to become a white-hat hacker.[2][6][7]

Elazari was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, where she asked to be placed in a role relating to information security. She ultimately served in the army for a total of ten years, both in the standing army and later in the reserve, and was a cybersecurity officer in the intelligence arm.[4] She attended Tel Aviv University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in history and philosophy of science and ideas and her Master of Arts in security studies.[4][8] She also has the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification,[8] which she earned in 2007.[4] In 2004, she organized with Neora Shem-Shaul Y2hack4, the second Israeli hackers conference. [9]

Career

Elazari is a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv University's Cyber Research Center.[3][10] She was also a teaching fellow at Singularity University in California from 2012 until at least 2018.[8][4] Her areas of research include cyberwarfare and politics.[6] Outside of academia, Elazari was a white-hat hacker, and continues to work as a security consultant.[7][5] In the past she has worked with various companies and organisations, including as a security specialist and industry analyst with Gigaom Research,[11] and as an adviser to the cryptocurrency technology company Epiphyte.[1]

Elazari runs BSides Tel Aviv, a hacking and cybersecurity research conference in Tel Aviv.[2] She also runs a professional meetup for women in cybersecurity.[4]

Elazari has given several talks about the positive impact of hackers,[12][6] and has spoken and written about the dynamic between hackers, the government, and private companies.[5] In 2014, Elazari gave a popular[12][5] TED talk titled "Hackers: The Internet's Immune System". She spoke about hackers, the ethics of hacking, and the importance of engaging with hackers to improve cybersecurity.[2][13] She was the first Israeli woman to give a TED Talk.[4] She spoke at DEF CON 22 in 2014, delivering a talk titled "Empowering Hackers to Create a Positive Impact",[1] and has spoken at other conferences including the Atlantic Security Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2015.[6] Elazari has written articles in publications including Scientific American[14] and Wired.[15]

Publications

  • Wheeler, Tarah (2016). Women In Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories. Chang, Angie; Cunningham, Katie; Elazari, Keren; Johnson, Miah; Smith, Kristin Toth; Taylor, Kamilah; Wu, Brianna (Contributors). Sasquatch Books. [4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Elazari, Keren (31 December 2014). Empowering Hackers to Create a Positive Impact (Video). DEF CON 22.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Elazari, Keren (1 August 2019). "The Importance of Hackers: Analyst Keren Elazari" (Podcast). Business Lab (Interview). Interviewed by Bramson-Boudreau, Elizabeth. MIT Technology Review.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Israel cyber authority says it warned hosting company it was vulnerable to hack" (in en-US). Agence France-Presse. 31 October 2021. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-cyber-authority-says-it-warned-hosting-company-it-was-vulnerable-to-hack/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Hirshorn, Yuval (3 January 2018). ""I Don't Want To Be An Anecdote"" (in en-US). https://forbes.co.il/e/i-dont-want-to-be-an-anecdote/. [unreliable source?]
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Janofsky, Adam (7 June 2018). "Adopt Hacker Mentality to Fight Fire with Fire". Wall Street Journal. ProQuest 2171135678. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Mancini, Melissa (16 April 2015). "Cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari lauds 'good hackers' at Halifax conference". CBC.ca. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cybersecurity-expert-keren-elazari-lauds-good-hackers-at-halifax-conference-1.3036099. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kamping-Carder, Leigh; Hand, Kevin (8 October 2020). "Hackers Eye Their Next Targets, From Schools to Cars" (in en-US). Wall Street Journal. ProQuest 2449264454. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/hackers-eye-their-next-targets-from-schools-to-cars-11602169373. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Keren Elazari". Tel Aviv University. https://icrc.tau.ac.il/icrc/story/Keren_Elazari. 
  9. ↑ why to hack?, Maariv, October 17, 2004
  10. ↑ "Keren Elazari on the importance of hackers" (in en). 1 August 2019. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/01/133924/the-importance-of-hackers-analyst-keren-elazari/. 
  11. ↑ Elazari, Keren (2 June 2014). "Keren Elazari on the Web at 25: biocomputing mechanisms" (in en-GB). Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/keren-elazari. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Hiltner, Stephen (22 September 2018). "For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That's Changing." (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/technology/defcon-hackers-privacy-anonymity.html. 
  13. ↑ Reissman, Hailey (20 March 2014). "Some hackers are bad. But a lot are good: Keren Elazari at TED2014". http://blog.ted.com/some-hackers-are-bad-but-a-lot-are-good-keren-elazari-at-ted2014/. 
  14. ↑ Elazari, Keren (April 2015). "How Cybersecurity Became Your Problem" (in en). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cybersecurity-became-your-problem/. 
  15. ↑ Elazari, Keren (7 January 2020). "You need to start making home cybersecurity a big priority". Wired. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/home-cybersecurity-hacking. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 

Further reading

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