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To Current and Future Students,   Our jobs are not easy. By ‘our,’ I mean yours and mine. We prepare long hours, studying to create a technical foundation. We work to understand the ins and outs of networks, applications, and firewalls. We painstakingly analyze...

Conflict questions loom large—when will Russia invade Ukraine? How will Europe respond, and how will the US react? In the anxiety produced by the physical presence of Russian troops surrounding Ukraine, we can overlook the other forms of Russian aggression against...

How do you feel about cybersecurity? We know that cybersecurity is a primarily a human endeavor – an endeavor driven by human decisions and conflicts that are escalated or resolved through a cyber professional’s human skill. Technology helps, but it’s just a tool. If...

Creating career opportunities is not easy. We get that. And while my last post laid the groundwork for creating opportunities, there is more to the story. Anyone entering cybersecurity also needs to know what makes a ‘memorable, personal value proposition.’ In short,...

Let’s face it. Employers are not offering jobs out of the goodness of their hearts (apart from a few). With 21,010 open cybersecurity positions in North Carolina, and almost 600,000 nationally, the job market should be on the side of the applicant, but it is not. Look...

Before co-founding the Carolina Cyber Center, I ran an incident response team for one of the U.S. Olympic Committees (there are over 50). I walked in Saturday morning with my usual checklist and was met with a row of ashen faces—not usually a good sign. What made it...