Being a Serial Entrepreneur, Business Leader, & Hacker – Alissa Knight – ASW #139
Alissa Knight has spent her career going against industry and social norms as both a Transgendered and Lesbian business leader and hacker. Learn more about her, her achievements as a published author, her recent vulnerability research in hacking law enforcement vehicles, mHealth apps and APIs, her recent screenplay for her new TV series, her life as a hacker, and barriers she's broken down in business.
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Alissa Knight is a partner at Knight Group where she’s the Director and Executive Producer at Knight Studios, and partner at Knight Ink, Knight Events, and Knight Publishing. She’s a recovering hacker of 22 years after being arrested for hacking into a government network at 17. Over the last two decades, Alissa has sold numerous cybersecurity startups to public companies as a serial entrepreneur and is a published author. Alissa is now an award-winning filmmaker at Knight Studios where she produces scripted narrative short and feature films in cybersecurity crime dramas for vendors as a form of disruptive content marketing.