Kaleb Worku’s record of academic distinction and relevant experience earned him the 2020 KnowBe4 Black Americans in Cybersecurity scholarship and the following year the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service. Today, he is a junior in the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Augusta University pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in cybersecurity. He is an undergraduate research assistant investigating medical device cybersecurity under the supervision of Dr. Michael Nowatkowski, CISSP and the captain of his school’s computing programming division of the Association for Computing Machinery. We caught up with Kaleb to discuss how earning this scholarship has impacted his journey and the ways in which he is working to make an impact on the future of cybersecurity.
What prompted your initial interest in cybersecurity?
It all started when my mother’s Yahoo email account was hacked in the infamous 2013 Yahoo data breach. We attempted to solve the problem as fast as we could by rushing to the computer repair shop. Back then, I did not have much experience with computers. My mother was worried and upset that she lost all the valuable information she had over the years, including the email addresses of family members and friends. I remember how concerned she was about not being able to retrieve the information. I was only in the sixth grade, but it lit a fire in me to want to do something about it. That’s really what sparked my initial interest in cybersecurity. Looking back now, I am glad I pursued it.
What did receiving this scholarship mean to you and w ..
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