Struggle to make new contacts on the cybersecurity/hacking community

The only goal for this contact seeking is mainly to share and learn new things. I pretty much always find myself just exploring subjects on my own whenever my job becomes boring. But still, I’m working now for 3 years in cybersecurity but I have some difficulties to build new connections. Does going (and thus paying cause my startup won’t ) to conferences will help? Will contacting researchers about their work if I have questions might be a good idea …

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