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Hi, my name is Rose Smothers. I'm a cybersecurity expert. My background is over a decade in the intelligence community,

primarily with the CIA working as a cyber threat analyst and technical intelligence officer.

Well, I always knew I wanted to be involved with computers and I think quite frankly as a lifelong

Star Trek nerd you know my my two favorite characters were Spock and O'Hoora so that kind of in a funny sort of way I think left an impression on my young mind about the

direction to take my life.

Well I started out in college and I was very good already with computers and so I had just gotten my two-year associates degree and started into the workforce and was making very good money because at that time there was not an abundance of cyber security professionals out there.

So it was kind of the Wild Wild West.

And then 9-11 happened and I wanted to go work for the government and pursue the bad guys, pursue

Al-Qaeda and I knew I needed a college degree in order to be able to apply for a position in the

intelligence community. So at that point I left the private sector, did my junior and senior year in about a year's time.

And I met a recruiter from the Defense Intelligence Agency

at a job fair and he pursued me for a position at DIA and I started out there as a

cyber threat analyst focusing on extremist groups primarily Al Qaeda.

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