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Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire. I am Dave Farrow. I am a senior director of information security of barracuda networks,

and I'm responsible for their entire internal security program.

At the end of high school, my father was into technology.

He was an early adopter, which is odd because he was in human relations,

in HR, all of his life.

And he had this K-Pro, and he kept trying to get me to play with this K-Pro

computer that he had, and I wanted nothing to do with it.

He thought he might lure me in with the Commodore 64,

and I preferred to surf and ride my bike around southern California.

It wasn't until I spent a quarter at college doing a non-technical, non-engineering course of study that I realized that I didn't like that.

That I really wanted something more concrete.

And at that point, I picked up and started studying electrical engineering.

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