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Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine | Posted: June 30, 2016
Summary Sentence:
Georgia Tech alumni help lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity team that is defending our data and infrastructure from crooks and hackers.
Full Summary:
Phyllis Schneck, PhD CS '99, and Andy Ozment, CS '00, help lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity team tasked with defending our data and infrastructure from the crooks, hackers, and worse - desperately trying to get their hands on them.
Phyllis Schneck, PhD CS '99
Andy Ozment, CS '00Two data defenders, Georgia Tech alumni Phyllis Schneck, PhD CS '99, and Andy Ozment, CS '00, are at the helm of the nation's homeland cybersecurity response -- based in the Washington, D.C., area, but operating out of a multitude of undisclosed locations. Schneck and Ozment speak to Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine about their careers at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the national urgency behind what they do, and how Georgia Tech prepared them to take it on.
