‘Born at the Right Time’: How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors

NBC News | Dec 30, 2014

The escalating roster of high-profile attacks against America’s most powerful corporations, including a hack of Sony Pictures that stoked hostilities between the U.S. and North Korea, has fueled the rise of a cybersecurity industry in which a growing number of CEOs are native hackers. “Cybersecurity used to be this little niche in IT,” said Ray Rothrock, a longtime Silicon Valley investor and former chair of the National Venture Capital Association. “Now a lot of people are in it because of the news. There’s an awareness of cybersecurity. And I’ll be blunt. We’re at war on this front. This country, all countries. We don’t need a Pearl Harbor to know it. This is just the wave of the future.”