Dr. David Brumley, CEO of ForAllSecure, a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor (on leave), and part of the team that won the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, was, at one time, a dishwasher and a line chef. That was before going back to get his high school diploma via correspondence courses and attending the University of Northern Colorado (UNCO), where he graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics while also working as a system administrator.
After graduation, he got his first security job: Chief Security Officer at Stanford University. Five years later, he attained a master’s degree in Computer Science from the university. After another five years, he gained a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and began his teaching career there and started a PhD program.
“Working as a CSO gave me thousands of hours of hands-on experience in the ..
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