First of all, thank you to the organization for giving me the chance to come and, above all, to do it before the closure.
In this case, I have seen here a lot of young people who are starting the world of cyber security.
The summary of the curriculum is that I am a little old, more than it seems, and that I have done a lot of things.
As any restless person, those of us who are sitting here...
Before, I was talking with the great Eduardo about cyber security here at CyberCAM.
But it is that cyber security, and within cyber security, and if we want to go far in the world of cyber security, maybe if I had taken out a console here from the computer, maybe I would have managed, although a lot of people see us from home, that a lot of young people would have stayed.
But it would not have been bad that those of you who have stayed, young people, and those who were sitting here, would have stayed to know a little that cyber security has a lot of human component.
And thanks to that human component that we forget, and before I was talking with Eduardo, thanks to that, it is possible that now, when we are 16, 18, 20 years old, our technical qualities are highly valued.
But there will come a time in life when, apart from those technical qualities, they will not value us for what we contribute as humans.
And how far we want to go will depend on what we contribute and what we are as humans.
And in cyber security, the technical and human part are closely linked.
And that was the reason why I dared to give this talk.
It has nothing technical, but it is very personal.
Allow me a few minutes to give you some advice.
I do not say if it is by list, at least by old age.
Pay attention to me, because in the end, in life, there is a formula that always works.
And then we will discuss what it is.
I always say that effort can do everything.
You can be smarter, you can know how to win many CTFs, you can know how to hack many devices, you can make the best tools.
But if you fail in the human side, sooner or later, that person will be in the middle of the road.
And his dreams will stop coming true.
Why?
Because all life has a reason.
I'm going to pass it on, because the presenter has already said it and I'm not going to bore you.
Look at that letter.
My book, which is not for sale, but I published it on June 21, 2018.
And the letter on the right is a letter that I sent to a publisher called Team Moon Mass, which now belongs, curiously, to Planeta, which is dated April 26, 1992.
That is, 26 years ago.
And I told Team Moon Mass, I sent them a poem.
I was 15 years old and I sent them a poem.
And, well, it would be someone from there, I don't know who, probably the secretary, and she said to me, thank you very much for your poem, Silvia, it is very beautiful.
Who knows if one day we will publish it in Team Moon Mass.
I received a cordial greeting from Marta Roulet, post-data, she continues to write.
And 26 years later I published with Planeta my first book.
I mean, what does this mean?
What is there between that 15-year-old girl who dreamed of being a writer and 26 years later publishes with Planeta?
That I am the best writer in the world?
No.
I just had a dream and I have worked hard to pursue it.
The effort.
The effort without control is useless.
I don't know if that will sound like an advertising spot, but it is true.
One can have a lot of desire, and I have also experienced it, to do a lot of things, but in the end, if one does not plan, if one does not have a strategy, if one does not dose, if one is overwhelmed, in the end one ends up failing.
I remember when I arrived at my time, when I was 16 years old, I was at the FP, at the institute, and you arrived at the FP at that time and you said, I don't know what to do with my life.
Now we all have it very clear here.
With the Internet you go to Google, what to do with my life?
And Google suggests things to you, what it wants, but it suggests things to you.
In the past there was no Internet, there was no Google, and then when one was lost and did not know what to do with his life, one had to be annoyed, and they sent you to the professional guide of the institute.
The guide told you, but what do you want in life?
And you said, no, I come to tell you what to do with my life.
Well, at 16 years old you don't know anymore.
Come on, because in a year you have to choose a university degree.
And you said, well, thanks for your advice.
So it has helped me a lot.
And more than one guided, I was disoriented at that time.
And there was no other documentary where to put yourself.
There was no YouTube tutorial that said, good morning gentlemen, today we are going to explain.
There was nothing.
Simply a guide that disoriented you.
And you were more lost than you had entered.
At 17 years old I decided that since I speak four languages, French, English, Spanish a little, Latin and Greek, I told my Latin teacher, teacher, teacher, I know what to do with my life.
I want to study classical languages.
And then my teacher looked at me with great affection, like a mother tells me, Silvia, it is true that you are very good at languages, that you speak very well, that you write very well, but you are going to starve.
But don't tell me this.
I mean, now that I know what to do with my life, don't tell me this.
Anyway, despite that, our parents didn't want us badly, and even so, despite being outstanding, our parents at that time, my mother always made me lazy to study.
Well, she was a restless aunt, who had many concerns.
On the other hand, I had a brother, or I have a brother who is an aeronautical engineer, who does that of airplanes.
And I saw him study and study and study.
He took eight years to get his degree in aeronautical engineering.
Eight years to know how an autopilot worked.
And I saw him every night, while I came from the fair, I saw him at three in the morning and studying.
The next day, he woke me up at eight in the morning to do my homework, he looked down the door, there was light in his desk, and I saw him studying.
And I said, you do this, engineer?
Eight years?
For what?
Eight years?
For what?
So, I say, this engineering, I already put it too much.
I started with my little pines, with the subject of computer science.
At that time, there were no tutorials, neither YouTube, as I have told you.
There was nothing that one could rely on.
How, I don't know, to assemble a computer?
How to assemble a CPU?
How to disassemble a CPU?
You had to buy a book, as you see on the right.
I disassembled my brother's computer, the poor engineer, who spent many hours studying every day to be an aeronautical engineer.
I disassembled it, I reassembled it, and it didn't work anymore.
And I left it there, I packed it, and I left.
That was my first investment in the world of computer science.
To load my brother's computer, the poor engineer, who spent 14 hours studying.
So, between the engineer, with 8 hours studying, and my traumas of the CPU, in the end, I said, is this science?
Well, not really.
So, in the end, I decided.
I said, I'm going to publish it on my social networks.
Let's see what I do with my life.
Wow, there is no WhatsApp, there are no social networks.
In 1999, there were no social networks.
Now, what do I do with my life?
And what a bad feeling, right?
When you are there, you say, what do I do with my life?
What am I going to dedicate my life to?
At 19 years old, a lady who tells me that this thing about languages, no.
My brother, who is there, the poor guy, sacrificed 8 years to be an aeronautical engineer, and I don't know if he knows if he's going to have a job or not.
A lady from high school who tells me that I don't dedicate myself to what I like the most.
What do I do with my life?
There is no Google, there is no WhatsApp, I can't publish it on social networks.
What do I do with my life, right?
Well, in the end, it happens what happens.
Conclusion, that one does not know what to do with his life, and surely more than one is wondering, although there are doubts, what to do.
What do I do?
Well, since I don't know what to do with my life, well, I take and I enroll myself as a professional soldier.
I mean, something logical, right?
What does someone do when he doesn't know what to do with his life?
Well, he takes the gun and gets into the military.
That's what I did.
Basically, I spent five years in which I don't tell you how many bullets I took, but it helped me a lot to be disciplined and, above all, to go myself to the corner of thinking.
To the corner of thinking, right?
Because I say, well, here five years in which you are getting bullets everywhere, I assure you that a lot of things happen to you in your head.
It happened to me.
So, I went to the military for five years and, well, that was the day of my dismissal.
As you can see, I am an expert in making tie knots.
The man on the day of my dismissal said to me, since you go to the police station and you are the black beaver, which is neither a civilian guard nor a military guard, but a policeman, a black beaver, always a black beaver, at least learn how to make a tie knot because they are going to ask you,
and so on.
In the end, what do I do?
Well, I go to the police.
Life things.
I mean, when you don't have things planned, suddenly, being a military man, I realize that what I like is to help people and that I go to the police every day and I do...
Well , the truth is that I discover a new world.
A new world.
A world that fills me, a world in which you play your life, a world in which you give what you like the most, what you give to others.
And the truth is that, well, I have been very happy during those years.
I just tell you, and this serves as a piece of advice to tell you, that never miss an opportunity and don't listen to people who tell you, this is not good for you, you are not going to get here, you don't have professional opportunities, there are many people who do this.
Do what you like.
I am the only policeman in my family.
The only one.
And I don't care where I go, where I wanted to serve.
And I went.
And I learned a lot.
And in the end, I ended up where I ended up.
In the UIT, in the Technological Research Unit.
There I discovered my vocation.
My vocation is to be a policeman.
I don't know, my vocation is cyber security.
Guys, girls, ladies, it's cyber security.
That's where I discovered my vocation.
When I was 25, I arrived at the UIT and I realized that the world of the network, which at that time already had Facebook, the world of the network was going to be my life.
And it hooked me.
It's never too late to discover vocations.
One doesn't have to be a hacker at the age of 14 to have it clear.
Just like some of you who are here tomorrow.
Now you see hackers, you see some magnificent technicians, and maybe in 5 or 10 years you'll be electricians.
You never know.
This is where I discovered my vocation.
And from then on, what happened to me?
When I became a policeman, I saw that to do my own research, to acquire more responsibility, to keep growing, I had to study and become an inspector.
I didn't do it for internal promotion, I did it, like everyone else, opposing and combining my work with my personal life.
Or rather, with my non-personal life, because in the end, I remember my brother, the poor guy who studied for 7 years, I laugh at the fact that he dropped me 12, then doing the same.
In the end, life gives you what you have tried to avoid.
It ends up giving it to you.
And I realized, during those 4 or 5 years that I was studying as an inspector, I had a very bad time.
I had a very bad time because it was a fight against myself.
I was 4 years old, giving up everything on a personal level.
I worked, I studied, I studied, I worked, I studied, and I had a dream in my head, and it was to become an inspector.
And don't think, in the end, that this is a question, because many colleagues told me, but don't do it, this is to be plugged in, this is only approved by sons of police officers.
I am not the daughter of a police officer, I am the daughter of an autonomous person, I am the daughter of a builder.
And I approved.
And one of those places was for me, in the end, of constancy and sacrifice.
And it wasn't an easy thing.
The third year that I got suspended, if you ever faced opposition, you know how hard it is, that when you get suspended, you have to start again.
And then, when I got suspended the third time, I had problems, I was half bald, my hair fell, I had skin problems, I was in pain.
And the third time that I got suspended, I remember that I sat down in my room and I was like this.
I was 31, 32 years old and I said, 32 years old and now I can't be an inspector?
Because I can't, because I don't deserve it.
Because I don't deserve it, because it's true.
The others say that this is only for the sons of police officers.
Is it true?
Well, it's true.
And then, at that moment, after 5 or 10 minutes, when my mother came in and said to me, daughter, maybe being an inspector is not for you.
If it's for me, mom, I know what I want to be.
Police inspector.
I want to do my own research.
I want to catch bad guys.
And I want to do it, going back to the UIT, because that was my dream.
After a few minutes... I don't have any tomatoes here, right?
I just realized.
With this, the trips...
After a few seconds, I got up, I put some motivational sentences and what I realized, what I realized is that what makes us different from the others is this.
That I'm giving a talk without shoes.
Why do I have to talk with shoes?
Because the others say so.
What makes us different is being there and contributing things.
Getting where the others don't get.
That's what gives us strength to continue in the moments when we think that we are not capable of doing things.
That people put in our heads limiting thoughts.
That we are and we can be what we want or want to be.
I'm looking now...
Let's see if I've gone to the bathroom.
What is the formula for success?
Unlike what they have taught you in the institutes, the FPs, the mathematics, the formula for success is already invented, guys.
Apart from learning a lot, studying, what we do every day, is the effort, the vocation and the patience.
Because patience is the mother of all sciences.
And it's like that.
That's the key to success.
It's not being smarter or less smart.
If you are smart, you make an effort.
If you have patience, you will get where you want.
I assure you.
Since we don't have more time, if you allow me, I'll give you some tips.
If not, because I'm smart or because I've done some things in life that were very difficult, even if it's because I'm old.
You have to look for opportunities.
Opportunities are not given to us.
Nobody thinks that people from the planet came to me and told me to write.
No.
In one year, I published 150 articles in Explora.
The following year, another 150.
In a thousand blogs, in a thousand sites.
Publishing, publishing, publishing.
Weekends without going out.
Until someone sees you and gives you an opportunity, gentlemen.
You have to look for opportunities.
Opportunities don't come.
And if you stay at home, you can be the best technician in the world.
But nobody will come to look for you.
And those of you who make the effort to come up here to tell what you learn, what you discover, it's a great effort and you have to keep doing it.
Because nobody will come to look for you.
You have to look for opportunities.
Visualize where you want to go.
I saw myself as an inspector.
I saw myself with my galons.
I saw myself... I don't know where I see myself now, but I saw myself as an inspector.
Visualize where you want to be.
Put it here, in your head.
The brain thinks of images.
When we smell a perfume, it evokes a sensation.
And we remember that moment, right?
When we go to the beach and we smell the waves.
Or when we go to Madrid and we smell the pollution.
But everything evokes images.
Our success is in images here.
If you see yourself tomorrow being the best hackers, put it here.
Record it here.
Because it's within your reach.
And not the others.
Within your reach.
Competitiveness.
Now it's more difficult, it's true, to make a living than before, it's true.
Now, thanks to the network, just like before, it limited us.
Now it makes us have four languages, have 50 careers, 18 masters, end up ruined, in debt, for asking money from everyone to be able to train and qualify.
We are very competitive.
But look for something that differentiates you.
Look for something that differentiates you.
If you know that cyber security is a very complex world and very wide, more and more.
Let's not pretend to be the kings of the mambo in everything.
And I have to say, I have my technical limitations, also mental, but technical.
Technical.
And I'm not going to go, as I've been asked once, well, you, as everyone knows you here in Spain, go and talk about this.
No!
If I'm not good at that or I'm going to make a living in that, I'm not going to do it.
Look for something that differentiates you.
Why?
Because if that differentiates you, that you like so much, there you will be able to make the difference.
If not, you will be one more.
Pursue what you really want to be, and don't let the limiting thoughts of others block you.
You continue on your path, always, your image, your image, always, looking forward, always.
Posturing, don't let it demoralize you.
I haven't even tweeted that I'm here in CyberCAN, doing a talk in CyberCAN.
It doesn't matter, sometimes people tell things on social media and then their video is very sad, I assure you.
If you have social media, use them with strategy.
Because thanks to social media, I'm here.
I'm not thanks to anyone.
I'm not thanks to any commissioner who has said, what a pretty girl, or clever, how well she speaks, or that she puts herself instead of me, that I'm her boss.
No, I'm here thanks to social media, to which I published every day, to which I bothered to work every day, and to which I gave to know my job.
He is also my colleague, but my job.
Use social media with strategy.
Because social media makes you reach places like me.
I would never have arrived here if it had depended on my superiors or my bosses.
Because my bosses will always want to put the medal for me.
Do I speak or not?
You have to use strategy.
And use social media.
Don't demoralize your superiors.
Don't believe what you see on social media.
Really, I'm telling you.
We must create in our own capacities and not generate expectations.
We don't generate expectations.
As a football coach says, step by step.
Leagues are won by adding up three points, adding up three points, adding up three points.
And every game is equally important.
Every game is equally important.
We don't generate expectations.
And every day, even if we think that what we are doing today doesn't matter, everything adds up.
Today's talk adds up, yesterday's talk adds up, the day before yesterday's talk adds up, and in the end, we have a 20-year race.
Everything adds up.
Everything, ladies and gentlemen.
There will always be someone who loves you badly.
Always.
No matter how good we are.
I don't care.
No matter how good we are.
No matter how good principles we have.
There will always be someone who envies us.
Who loves us badly.
Who wants us to go wrong.
Why?
Because people are mediocre.
Because people are bad.
And people are envious.
Therefore, we don't have to wait for someone to slap us on the shoulder.
Sometimes, yes, and of course they are grateful.
But they have to be inside of us.
And let's not think, well, if I treat people well, if I have done everything for people, why do people treat me badly?
Because there are people who want you to go wrong.
Because if we were all good, we would all be here.
And you can't be here.
There has to be people here and here.
Here has to be the people we talk about.
And here has to be the people who don't influence us.
Here.
Acknowledgements are very good.
The pats on the back.
The awards.
The recognition.
It's very good that everyone applauds you and you say, how good I am, what a career I have.
Right?
But where do you learn?
From the sticks.
The last stick, the last stick, the last milk, I got it three weeks ago.
A very fat stick, at a professional level.
Nothing happens, gentlemen.
You have to learn from mistakes.
I'm not going to sit down and block myself.
I'm not going to be here telling people how bad they are.
You have to get up.
And you learn from mistakes.
Acknowledgements are a little pats on the back.
For what?
To know that we are on the right path.
And that we are doing things well.
Those are the acknowledgments.
To know that we are doing well.
But not for anything else.
Not for anything else.
Choose what your principles are going to be.
Choose who you want to surround yourself with.
If you surround yourself with mediocre people, you will have mediocrity.
If you surround yourself with bright people, you will have bright people by your side.
That's for sure.
No mediocre person who loves you badly, who doesn't have principles, is going to allow you to be here.
It's going to be the people who really want you to be here.
Choose what principles are going to guide your path.
What do you want?
To work for money?
Then don't complain if they treat you badly.
Don't complain if the one up there is bothering me, making my life impossible.
If you have sold yourself for money, don't complain.
If you want to be guided by what you like the most, you will be fine.
You will be fine.
It's true that we all need money to eat.
I'm the first one.
I'm the first one who has gone to the police earning a good salary to become self-employed.
You have to be.
Maybe it's because I trust myself and my possibilities.
Success stories.
Those who talk about Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg.
Don't look at that.
You have to be happy every day.
And if you want to be here, you have been the first, the second, the third in the CTF.
That is already a success.
Leave Amazon, Aliexpress, Facebook.
That's what people want to sell us.
Cheap mentality and philosophy.
How many get to that?
One.
How many millions of people die of hunger?
Success stories are all of us here.
If you are here wanting to be here because you want to be in a place, doing something you like, that's already a success story.
That's already a success story.
That I'm here telling this is a success story for me.
I don't need to be healthier to be happy.
Maybe I should drink some beers with my best friends.
That makes me happy.
Big projects are made by people.
What good is it to me if they give me 200.000 euros and then I'm going to melt it in nonsense?
Big projects are made by people.
They do what you contribute, what you contribute, what you contribute.
What she can't contribute, he contributes.
People do it.
People raise projects up.
People, right now, we don't need bosses, we need leaders.
And big projects are made by people.
That's why I don't know how many hundred percent of the companies that are set up, fail in ninety-something.
Why?
Because they don't have money, no.
Because people don't make groups.
Because people don't add up, they subtract.
Big projects are made by people.
Everything you contribute always adds up.
Always adds up
.
Surround yourself with talent and motivation, I've already said it.
People who contribute, people who add up, people who like what they do.
Because, in the end, when you surround yourself with negative things, you end up being infected by others.
And if you have people around you who are negative, isolate yourself.
And you say, my path, my path, my image, my image, my path, my path...
Surround yourself with talent and motivation.
Always.
That talent.
And that talent is no more than doing what you like, doing it well.
And surround yourself with people who are just like you.
And it will go well, for sure.
Motivational books.
It's very good to consume them, but the motivation has to come from here.
That what I'm telling you, you create it.
Because it works.
I tell you it works.
Daughter of a builder and a housewife.
It works.
Everything you have here works.
Because this is what will keep you on the path.
Not the little hands from here.
Because when you get here, you will be alone.
The more you grow up, the more alone you will be.
That's how it is.
When people don't know you, people give you a little hand.
They say, how good you are, how cool you are.
When you go up, you are alone.
Because people start to admire you, they start to envy you and they start to criticize you.
Why?
Because you have done it well.
Therefore, the motivation is always here.
Not here.
Here.
And then the hard part is not to succeed.
It's not to succeed.
It's to stay.
What scares me is not that things go well for me.
It's that the expectations we generate, we have to keep them.
They come to the presentation and tell us, I don't know how, but you have done so much.
Why?
Because people expect you to be at a certain level.
Therefore, you have to keep working hard.
When we get to where we want to be, we have to keep working hard.
You don't live on rent.
You live one year, you live two.
But you have to keep being at the same level and demonstrating every day.
And finally, be humble and never stop learning.
You learn until you just enter the company.
Everyone has something to contribute.
I'm up here, I'm not smarter than anyone else.
It's simply because I'm older or I've done better.
But not because I'm smarter.
Never stop learning.
Even the youngest person has things to teach you.
And finally, don't be afraid of change.
Nothing happens.
Change is always positive.
It's always for the best.
What am I going to say?
That I got a fixed position.
Winning it well.
It doesn't matter.
You always have to try something new.
So I encourage you to have that talent, to follow these little tips and I'm sure that if you follow them closely, you will do well.
Thank you very much.