BURCU YARAR
WHY I BECAME A CYBERSECURITY EXPERT by Burcu Yarar, Application Security Team Lead at VakıfBank Life is an equation with many unknowns. I have
was to produce qualified personnel for the sector.
always had a passion for equations with many
In line with this goal, it was a highly disciplined
unknowns. This passion makes me feel great, and
learning institution.
one of my wishes is for things to stay that way. Cybersecurity is also a wonderful equation in which
After experiencing informatics in high school, I was
there are many unknowns. I am on the offensive side
sure I wanted to work in the field, so I continued
of this equation.
my undergraduate education in informatics. After graduating I knew what roles in informatics I did not
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My story is as follows. I first saw informatics as a
want. My choices have always been shaped by what
profession, and decided to choose it, in 2007 when
I did not want rather than what I wanted. I did not
I enrolled in a vocational high school. The school I
want to be a software developer. However, because I
chose was the best in its field at that time. Its goal
had studied informatics in high school and university,
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