From girls “addicted” to games to Viettel security experts: Regularly doing “night owl”, playing the role of hacker to protect the system

Vu Mai Anh is an expert of Viettel Internet Security Company. In 2020, she becomes a rare Vietnamese woman named by Zoho – India’s Top 10 global business management service provider, as one of the most contributors to the safety of this company.

This event also marked a rare time when Vu Mai Anh appeared publicly. She was born in 1992, has 8 years working in the security industry but is almost “invisible” on social networks.

Before that, Mai Anh used to have a “fierce” student when he was “addicted” to the game and forgot to sleep, even dropped out of school to go to the bar to “plow” the game. Although her family does not know, after that, the girl changed herself and focused on studying for university exams. With her passion for games and technology, Mai Anh chose and passed the entrance exam to the Faculty of Information Technology of Hanoi University of Technology.

I thought I would become a coder to write video games, but my predestination to the security industry was also very accidental.

“That day, I was ‘groping’ on the C Viet Community forum and saw the post recruiting interns in the security industry. I do not have enough professional knowledge but like the challenge, so I decided to join. I got the job. and ‘stick’ with the profession until now, “she recalls.

From a young trainee, Mai Anh has now become a key member of the Pentest team of Viettel Cyber ​​Security Company – who specializes in testing the ability to break into information technology systems. And yet, the girl born in 1992 is also the only female member in RedTeam – the “role-playing” hacker group, whose mission is to thoroughly attack targeted systems to detect security vulnerabilities and prevent threats. muscle loss of information security.

It is known that the RedTeam term refers to a group of security experts, but operates and thinks like a group of hackers. The team will use its ability to attack, hack into targeted systems that customers – usually businesses – put in place, to test the network security of the business. If hackers are active at times when businesses are most off guard, like at night, so does the RedTeam team.

That is why Mai Anh has become a “night owl” many times for several months just to do “mission”. However, she also found herself sometimes influenced by emotions but always tried to perfect herself. The first hole in her life as security, Mai Anh found out after a love affair.