{"id":249376,"date":"2026-05-19T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/young-girls-are-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:00:21","slug":"young-girls-are-the-future-of-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/young-girls-are-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Girls Are The Future Of Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/young-girls-are-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/\">Young Girls Are The Future Of Cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/young-girls-are-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/\">https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/young-girls-are-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 08:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cybersecurityventures.com\">cybersecurityventures.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Betta Lyon Delsordo\u00a0told Cybercrime Magazine\u00a0that her journey into ethical hacking began at 13, in Montana, when she taught herself to code,<\/p>\n<p>After earning a degree in Computer Science, she pursued a Master\u2019s in Cybersecurity at Georgia Tech and completed numerous certifications through an NSA grant. Betta went on to specialize in application security penetration testing, with a focus on web, cloud, and AI hacking. She is currently a penetration tester for AWS in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Betta\u2019s technical pursuits, she is deeply committed to mentoring underrepresented groups in cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Betta is an active member of Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), Women in Security and Privacy (WISP), and Rewriting the Code (RTC). Through these organizations, she has hosted talks, organized local meetups, and volunteered at conferences to promote greater diversity in cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Her advocacy has been recognized with awards and scholarships from (ISC)\u00b2, FS-ISAC, the NSA, the Infosec Institute, ESET, WISP, WiCyS, and more. To Betta, hacking is a superpower that can be used for good or evil, and she\u2019s dedicated to ensuring that more women and underrepresented groups can harness that power to protect humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Betta and you\u2019ll understand why young girls are the future of cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Video<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Betta Lyon Delsordo, Ethical Hacker &amp; Pentester: Young Girls Are The Future of Cybersecurity\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4mVEY09zP5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/young-girls-are-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Girls Are The Future Of Cybersecurity https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/young-girls-are-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-19 08:42:00 Source Domain: cybersecurityventures.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/photo14.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-249376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249378,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249376\/revisions\/249378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}