Vincent Cook is a 20-year old entrepreneur with his own successful cyber 安全 商売／仕事 - here's how he built it up...
- Vincent Cook became a cyber 顧問 at just 14 years old?
- He dropped out of school at 16 and now 長，率いるs up his own company?
- He says his age is 'irrelevant' as he 安全な・保証するs 投資 from 最高の，を越す UK VCs?
Vincent Cook 開始する，打ち上げるd his first cyber 安全 商売／仕事 at the age of 14?
Vincent Cook has always been a rulebreaker.?
While his classmates were 熟考する／考慮するing for their GCSEs, he was in 拘留，拘置 令状ing lines: 'I do not, nor will I ever, use the dark web.'
The experience （機の）カム to 形態／調整 the next few years of his life.?
At 14, he started his first cyber 安全 consultancy 商売／仕事 and since then he has 静かに built 当局 in the space.
Now, at 20 years old he has built and 開始する，打ち上げるd his own 知能 壇・綱領・公約 - Cyb3r 操作／手術s - to help 保護する companies and 政府s from bad actors.
As the 脅し of cyber 出来事/事件s ramps up, with companies and 政府s recognising the existential 脅し attacks can 提起する／ポーズをとる, it could not have come at a better time for Cook.
'School wasn't for me'
Whi le most 十代の少年少女s were either socialising or 熟考する／考慮するing, Cook was curiously （電話線からの）盗聴 into homebuilt computers.
After spending some time building 金物類／武器類, he soon realised just how 平易な it is for bad actors to try and 妥協 a system, and was quickly 麻薬中毒の の上に cybersecurity.
Instead of directing his energy に向かって school exams, Cook took online courses for 侵入／浸透 実験（する）ing and 倫理的な 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセスing, to learn how to 妥協 systems ーするために 保護する 商売／仕事s.
'I didn't enjoy school at all, it wasn't for me. I was pigeonholed a lot and I didn't enjoy the 伝統的な 支配するs, it was a really 堅い time, but I used that time to 伸び（る） my knowledge and experience in the cyber space.?
'I started doing some 契約 work on the 侵入／浸透 実験（する）ing 味方する of things, again 伸び（る）ing some experience.'
Cook, a self-自白するd people person, was not going to be just another teenage hacker in his bedroom, though.?
At 14, he 始める，決める up his own consultancy 商売／仕事 before working for a North American defence 請負業者, working on training 計画／陰謀s for companies, 政府s and the 軍の.
While still at school, Cook was …に出席するing 安全 会議／協議会s which '最高潮の場面d that I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be someone 主要な a team of 専門家s'.
Given his growin g 専門的知識 in the space, he one day brought up the fact that there are 推論する／理由s everyone should be aware of the dark web at school.?
'They didn't really understand it [and] I get it because it's a scary thing. I ended up 令状ing lines: 'I do not, nor will ever use the dark web' and I was made to 令状 that in 孤立／分離.'
On 最高の，を越す of this, there was the 追加するd 圧力 that his parents had a 支配する for him and his siblings that they would get to A Levels.
'I really didn't want to do it,' Cook says. 'I 現在のd them a 計画（する） 説 these are the 肉親，親類d of companies I want to work with. I'd just started A Levels and then I dropped out. It was the best 決定／判定勝ち（する） I could have made.'
How the dark web 脅すs companies?
妨げるing cyber attacks has become ますます important and companies are at constant 危険 of 出来事/事件s that 範囲 from phishing attacks to 顧客 data 漏れるs.?
Earlier this year, 王室の Mail said it had 直面するd 厳しい disruption to its international 輸出（する） services に引き続いて a 'cyber 出来事/事件'.
While Cook had made a 指名する for himself as a 顧問 from the age of 14, two years ago he 始める，決める out to build something new.
Rather than go out on his own, he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to build a more 商業の 壇・綱領・公約 that could help companies scour the internet for 可能性のある 脅しs.
He saw a gap in the market and Cyb3r 操作／手術s was born.
'One of the 重要な challenges 商売／仕事s 直面する is understanding what happens in the ether of the cyber world, and how people interact with each other and their 商売／仕事 and how that could be 妥協d.
'The point is to have a bunch of touch points across the web. Whether that's on social マスコミ, 地下組織の 会議s, 黒人／ボイコット ma rkets… You've got all of these individual beacons that are pinging and letting you know your 商売／仕事 has been について言及するd.'
One example he gives is 選ぶing up communication in a dark web 会議 where individuals are talking about how they might 妥協 確かな vulnerabilities at a company.?
With 知能, the company is able to patch up the 攻撃を受けやすい part of the system, ramp up 安全 and lock 負かす／撃墜する 確かな accounts.
The dark web - a hidden 集団の／共同の of internet 場所／位置s usually used for nefarious 推論する／理由s - isn't something the 普通の／平均（する） person can 伸び（る） 接近 to, nor know how to.
Cook and his team at Cyb3r 操作／手術s scour the dark web to 妨げる hackers from 的ing companies?
That's where Cook and his team's 専門的知識 come in. Cook himself has spent years trawling the 深い web, having 長，率いるd up the 深い and dark web 知能 programme for a large North American defence 請負業者.
'What typically happens when you jump into a 会議 or marketplace is something known as a snowballing technique.?
'You 調査する something within the marketplace which leads you to other marketplaces, other 会議s, other chatrooms, which they then lead you to others. It's sort of this exponential curve of these different 内密の places where people are communicating. It's about having visibility across all of them in an 自動化するd fashion.'
But it's not just the 深い web that 提起する／ポーズをとるs a 脅し, but the 深い web - also known as the hidden web - and social マスコミ too.
'These bad actors continuously operate across social マスコミ, the 深い web and the dark web. That's why it's really important not to just look at the dark web, but at the surface and 深い web too.
'They're just people at the end of the day, they're just people sitting behind a computer.'
'My age is irrelevant'
Cook has an impressive knowledge for someone who's recently turned 20. While he may have swallowed some of the 法人組織の／企業の jargon used by older professionals, Cook has a 成熟 beyond his years.
That hasn't come without its challenges, though.
He says finding 投資 has been harder to come by because of his age.
'You'll typically find that people will look at age as a number. I always joke and say the only thing Ican do is wait and get old er. I joke with it but for me the people who point that out and use that as an excuse… it really defines and helps me understand who I want to work with and who I don't.'
Thankfully for Cook and his team, Cyb3r 操作／手術s now has 投資家s, 含むing UK institutional 投機・賭ける 資本／首都 基金s, to の近くに a seed 一連の会議、交渉／完成する.
How do big companies feel 存在 told to run their 商売／仕事 by a 20 year old??
'I see it as irrelevant. Yes, I have 直面するd challenges 予定 to my age, there's no 疑問 about that. But at the same time with my knowledge and experience working in the 産業… it doesn't become a deciding factor.
'I'm here, I'm doing a 職業, I 絶対 love it and we know we're 供給するing value to our 顧客s.'
