San Diego, California
San Diego Cybersecurity Expert & Professor.Nikolas Behar — professor of cybersecurity at the University of San Diego.
I teach cybersecurity at the University of San Diego, co-lead the OWASP San Diego chapter, and explain security to San Diego audiences in English and Spanish — on television, in lecture halls, and in the plain-language guides collected here.
I have been interviewed over 50 times by San Diego news outlets since 2019, over 10 of them in Spanish.
- Television
- Over 50 appearances across San Diego stations since 2019, in English and Spanish
- Teaching
- University of San Diego, Palomar, San Diego City College
- Community
- OWASP San Diego Chapter co-leader; co-founder, La Villa Hacker
- Credentials
- CISSP — Certified Information Systems Security Professional
OSCP — Offensive Security Certified Professional
Guides
What people actually ask me
Written the way I teach it — no vendor pitch, no jargon, no assumed background.
What a Penetration Test Actually Is
What you are buying, what you should get back, and how to tell a real test from an automated scan.
The San Diego Small Business Cybersecurity Checklist
The short list of things that actually reduce risk for a small business, in the order I would do them.
The First 24 Hours After a Breach
What to do, who to call, and the mistakes that reliably make everything worse.
AI Security for Small Business
Prompt injection, chatbots, and staff using AI tools at work — what matters, and what does not.
In the news
Explaining security on air
Available for interviews in English and Spanish.
Get in touch
Have a security question?
Whether you are a producer on deadline or a business owner trying to make sense of something, I am glad to point you in the right direction.