Entered IT with the U.S. Air Force in 1990 and was Donald Rumsfeld's IT program manager inside the Pentagon on 9/11. Now teaches cybersecurity at Pima Community College and runs a mentorship program across three continents with his wife, Dolly Murray Ward.
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S1·E3 — Cybersecurity Tips for the Whole Family
My claim to fame is that on nine-eleven, I was Donald Rumsfeld's IT program manager in the Pentagon when someone decided to fly an airplane into our office building. So it was an extremely long and traumatic day. But you learn from the good and the bad.
Adjunct Faculty, Pima Community College
A lot of people think you have two choices. You either withdraw and live on a mountaintop, or you face the lions in the lion's cage. Well, you can become educated and be safer, be smarter online.
West Region Coordinator, NICE Cybersecurity Career Ambassadors
So you marking something as spam or phishing may save somebody's mother or somebody's cousin from losing their life savings due to these malicious actors. They can be stopped, but you have to be part of the force that discourages them.
Adjunct Faculty, Pima Community College
And the thing that most people don't realize is, this device is on the Internet — and this device can and has been compromised in the past.
Adjunct Faculty, Pima Community College
Longer passwords are trillions of times safer than complex, shorter passwords. Trillions of times safer.
Adjunct Faculty, Pima Community College
So these kids that are learning to hack, learn to hack — and to them, they don't know the boundaries. They need ethics.
Adjunct Faculty, Pima Community College