Watch this video and pay attention to the way that movies distort hackers. Hacker Rates 12 Hacking Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? – YouTube. After watching the video, write a journal entry about how you think the media influences our understanding about cybersecurity.

In media, their goal is to make things look cool, make them look sexy, and that’s what they do with hackers. No one wants to see someone sit at a table for a couple hours and eventually hack into the big evil guy’s mainframe, so it has to be changed. Because of this, public perception on hackers and the cybersecurity industry as a whole is looked at through a very skewed lens. What real hackers and cybersecurity experts do may not be sexy, but the end result is oftentimes just as fascinating to see.