Google Cybersecurity Expert Parisa Tabriz (STEM Trailblazer Bios)
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This accessible biography follows Parisa Tabriz from competitive childhood games to leading Google's cybersecurity team, making a modern technology career vivid and relatable for middle-school readers.
Our review
She played to win as a kid, and that same competitive instinct carried Parisa Tabriz all the way to the top of Google's security operation. This accessible biography follows her from childhood games with her brothers to leading teams of ethical hackers hired to break Google's own systems before adversaries do. A vivid portrait of how personality, math, and tenacity combine in a modern cybersecurity career.
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Do you like to compete against other people? So did cybersecurity engineer Parisa Tabriz. She turned her toughness and her competitive spirit into a job as Googles top security expert.As a child, Tabriz loved to play games with her brothersand she played to win. When she couldnt outmuscle them, she tried to outsmart them. In high school, she excelled at math and science. She also liked drawing and painting. She considered a career as an artist and even as a police officer. Years later, Tabriz became an information security engineer at Google. How did she go from battling her brothers to fighting cybercriminals at one of the worlds most important tech companies? Read on to learn all about the life of Googles top security brain.
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- Resource type
- Book
- Age ranges
- Middle School
- Careers
- Cybersecurity Analyst
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