Ed Amoroso: Security shouldn't be the main dish. [Computer Science] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 10 August 2025

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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Chief Executive Officer and Founder of TAG Cyber, Ed Amoroso, shares how he learned on the job and grew his career. In his words, Ed "went from my dad having an ARPANET connection and I'm learning Pascal, to Bell Labs, to CISO, to business, to quitting, to starting something new. And now I'm riding a new exponential up and it's a hell of a ride." Hear from Ed how he sees security as a side dish that you'll progress into naturally once you've paid your dues and mastered a skill like networking, software or databases. We thank Ed for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.7	Thank you.com backslash cyberwire. Hi, this is Ed Amaroso, and I'm the chief executive officer and founder of Tag Cyber,
1:06.3	which is a research and advisory firm located in New York City.
1:10.5	And I also am a professor over at NYU where I teach in the Computer Science and Engineering
1:15.1	Department.
1:20.9	Well, my dad was the second computer science PhD ever in the world.
1:27.3	He was at UPenn, and he was doing a PhD in
1:29.8	electrical engineering. They came to him and said, we'd like to make a computer science. This was
1:35.0	the Moore School in the 60s. That's where Eniac was built in the 50s. And my dad famously said,
1:41.0	well, if you have to call yourself a science, you probably aren't one.
1:45.1	And he's right. Computer science is not a science. We don't have any laws. But he did that.
1:50.1	So I grew up in a family where we had an Arpinet connection into our home in the 70s.
1:55.1	I was a very mischievous kid. And I learned to program on Carnegie Mellons.
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