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Tolga TAVLAS

@hackhappens

Author of DIGITAL BANKING TIPS and CYBERSECURITY DICTIONARY FOR EVERYONE, #Fintech Influencer, #CyberSecurity Professional.

Wien- Austria Se unió Ekim 2010
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I’m delighted to share that my new book, “HACK HAPPENS,” has just been launched! 🙂 You probably know this is my third book, after Digital Banking Tips (2015) and Cybersecurity Dictionary for Everyone (2024). Of course, each has a different story behind it. Digital Banking Tips started with a blog post I wrote for Finextra at 3:30 a.m. when I couldn’t sleep. Then came more posts, three of which made it into the Top 5 Finextra blogs 2015. Even though I’ve loved it since day one, I always thought banking was a boring topic for most people. So I was surprised when those tips reached hundreds of thousands of readers. That content is still part of some university curricula and is frequently referenced. (Except by one guy 🥴 who apparently knows everything about digital banking and found it “totally useless.” The rest seemed to love it.) It even made me a small celebrity in the fintech world at the time. I once appeared on an influencer list alongside Bill Gates, just slightly above The Financial Times. It’s a pity that the influence wasn’t about financial well-being — just influence with no commercial value. Still, it meant something. Then came Cybersecurity Dictionary for Everyone (2024). That one started as a book on Identity and Access Management (IAM), but the content turned out to be either too complicated, boring, or just plain dull. Two editors I hired walked away mid-project — not once, but twice. That was enough to convince me that something wasn’t working. Maybe the world needed a cybersecurity dictionary more than it needed another IAM book. In some ways, it was an easier task — I’d been collecting cybersecurity terms for years. But translating them into everyday language was tough. I kept wondering: Is this even useful in the age of AI? Aren’t all these terms already on Google? But the last year proved otherwise, not because of sales (yes, the most frequently asked and “respected” KPI 🙄). And no, it’s obviously not selling enough — otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this from the small desk in my bedroom, but from a yacht in the Mediterranean, right? What was amazing was the interaction with people worldwide while promoting the dictionary. For a modest cybersecurity guy, working independently with no PR budget, reaching 400 million impressions, 3.5 million engagements, and thousands of conversations was unexpected — numbers you'd usually associate with major corporations or government campaigns. That gives you insight. Big insight. HACK HAPPENS is the result of that insight. I have no idea how much it will sell, what kind of reach it will have, or whether people will love it. But I did my best to repay what I owe to society and the good people who share this world with us. I hope I managed to do that. 🥸 Let’s see what unique experiences it brings… 😎 amazon.com/dp/B0FBWC4B7V
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Learn smarter with 50 tips and a cybersecurity dictionary for everyone! 🔑 Available on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0D6RXXRKK?…✨
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