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Joe Carrigan: Build your network. [Security engineer] [Career Notes]

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Senior security engineer with the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute and the Institute for Assured Autonomy, Joe Carrigan, shares what he calls his life mistake and what spurred him to finally choose a career in technology. Throughout his life, Joe had interest in technology, he even worked at the computer lab in college, but never set his sights on that for a career. A conversation with a stranger guided him in that direction and he's been there ever since. As co-host of the CyberWire's Hacking Humans, Joe sees some heartbreaking results of scams and feels education of the public will help to prevent these. Joe reminds us to build our networks as they include people we can always go back to either when searching for a position or looking to fill one on our teams. We thank Joe for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you. My name is Joe Kerrigan.

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I am a senior security engineer with the Johns Hopkins University Information

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Security Institute and the Institute for Assured Autonomy.

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Thank you. for assured autonomy. I don't know that I had any such recollection of what I wanted to do.

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I was kind of aimless.

1:22.1

I did in 1981, I think my dad got an Osborne computer and I was like, this is great.

1:28.9

I enjoy playing with this and writing code and I actually taught myself how to write basic on that.

1:34.1

And it was a lot of fun to play with.

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But shortly after that, as computers progressed on, my father maintained that

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Osborne and worked on that Osborne well into the 90s before he got himself a new computer.

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So I didn't have any other computing experiences growing up around the house.

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When I saw somebody, the first IBM compatible computers, I had absolutely no idea what I was looking at because I had never seen a DOS operating

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