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My Journey in Cyber Security
A long long time ago, in a small town far away…
… there was a girl watching crime shows who wanted to be like the federal agents she saw working on the computers. This is the story of how that girl stumbled into her career and passion. This is my story.
Ambition Can’t Wait
I was a junior/senior in high school, and all I knew was that I wanted to be like the federal agents on TV, working on computers to solve crime.
I was looking for an undergraduate degree in computer security in the Greater Philadelphia Area. In 2016, most universities only offered a computer science degree out of the engineering school's closet, with maybe one class in security. That’s when Drexel University got onto my tour list.
Drexel University, located in University City in Philadelphia, was the opposite of what I wanted—a large university in a major city. My dad convinced me to take the university tour just to confirm that I knew it wasn’t what I wanted. So, in the heat of summer, we drove to the city and went to a university open house that changed everything.
We attended a session with the recruiting team from the College of Computing and Informatics, which offered five different undergraduate majors. At the time, there was a hydra-like image in…
