In the fight against cyber crime, it’s often claimed there aren’t enough security professionals around to keep organisations safe from ever-evolving security threats.
But there is one group who should have the skills and the mindset to find the gaps in computer networks that crooks misuse and help to close them: criminal hackers themselves.
Often these are young, foolish and sometimes not even aware they are breaking the law. But how to make sure that the talents of these youngsters are harnessed for good, rather than for evil, is a challenge that the tech industry and law enforcement agencies are still grappling with.
“We do a lot to prevention to stop these kids from going into cyber crime — some don’t even know that it’s criminal what they’re doing,” said Paul Hoare, head of cyber crime incident management at the National Crime Agency, speaking at Cloudsec Europe 2018 in London.
“A lot of them are very talented and would be a huge boon, so there are lucrative careers for them in cyber security without getting involved in criminal areas — we’re trying to divert them from that.”
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