All language subtitles for 5_Heather Adkins keeping hackers out

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My name is Heather Adkins.

I'm director of information security and
privacy here at Google.

And our job is to keep the hackers out.

Every day at Google for me is a new day.

It's like a new job every day.

Hackers are very interesting and very
diverse in the way that they do things.

They're either hacking for fun and fame
because they're intellectually curious and

they want to understand how things work.

Or they're hacking for money because
they want to steal money from people or

they're hacking because they
want to steal information.

And so for us we try to understand
how the hackers work so that we can

understand what kinds of things we have
to do to prevent them from doing it.

You have to understand
how the internals work,

you have to understand how the programmer
built it, and this is really thrilling.

You get to ride alongside
the programmer and

understand what they were thinking when
they were designing the software and

anticipate what mistakes
they might have made.

We prepare for being hacked by
understanding how hacking works.

And this is often the most exciting
part of our work because we get to

break the systems and I think a lot
of us who get into the field think

what would it be like to rob a bank, what
would it be like to hack into a system?

And here we get to play
the other side of that.

So we have hackers of our own who hack
our systems and tell us how they did it.

And we also study how the actual attackers
in the world are hacking other people.

I think that the field of security is so
exciting for us,

those of us who do it as a profession,
because it's changing all the time.

That presents us with new
challenges every single day.

And it also appeals to us, I think because
it means that we're protecting users.

Google has a service offered to
billions of people on the planet, and

we do it because we want to protect them.

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