The ethical dilemmas at the heart of Cybersecurity Marcus’s story Marcus stared at the terminal, his hands hovering over the keyboard like a pianist about to perform. He’d found it by accident, a SQL injection vulnerability in his university’s student portal. One misplaced quote mark in a search field, one poorly sanitized input, and suddenly…
The ice clicked against crystal as Marcus poured two fingers of Johnnie Walker Black Label into matching tumblers. Outside the townhouse’s window, the Inner Harbor hummed its usual Tuesday night symphony, water taxis cutting through dark water, bass thumping from Federal Hill bars across the harbor, the neon glow of the Power Plant Live district…
I still remember the moment I decided to pursue cybersecurity. I’d been reading headlines about massive data breaches, watching movies where hackers saved the world in 90 minutes, a close friend getting hacked and the attacker making away with some significant monies and I had had the final straw thinking: This is it. This is…