Building a Tool Chest to Protect your API’s
Tuesday, October 18 at 5:15 pm
For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Women in Technology of the Heartland (WiTH) is excited to bring you a virtual presentation by author, film director and producer, Alissa Valentina Knight, on protecting your Application Program Interfaces (APIs). APIs translate between applications, enabling them to talk or interact with each other. Almost everything in our connected world uses them, from our banking infrastructure to passenger transport vehicles. Learn how Alissa hacked them all -- and how to build a valuable tool chest to protect against API attacks.
Prior to her career as a film director and producer, Knight was best known for having been a reformed Black-Hat hacker. After her arrest when she was 17 years old for hacking a government network, Knight was recruited by the U.S. intelligence community, where she supported counterinsurgency (COIN) operations as a defense contractor.
She is the co-founder of the Knight Group, co-owned by her wife, Melissa Knight, which is a group of companies under the same brand, Knight Events, Knight Studios, and Knight Ink. Before starting Knight Group, she sold two of her cybersecurity companies to publicly traded companies in international markets.
Some of the short films she is best known for producing and directing include Ransom (2022), Scorched Earth (2022), and Underdog Games (2021). Knight became a published author in 2019 with the release of her bestselling book, “Hacking Connected Cars” (Wiley, 2019).
Register at: https://mailchi.mp/b59258c14e84/do5t04z2of to join us in person for a watch party sponsored by Modis and hosted by The Elevator at the newly opened The Elevator, a century old building renovated for use as a co-warehousing facility for entrepreneurs, located at 1402 Jones Street in Omaha, OR register using the same link to join us virtually (Zoom link will be provided to you after registering).