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Hi, I'm John DiMaggio, and I am the chief security strategist at Analyst One.

Okay. security strategist at Analyst 1. I was dead set. I was either going to be an actor or a lawyer. Very different paths.

But that was what I had decided I wanted to do from a very young age. I changed over the years when I saw how much school it would take to be a lawyer.

And acting just never was something I ended up pursuing.

But I thought for sure I was going to be one of those two things.

A movie star or a great argumentative lawyer.

I was so curious about computers and technology from a very young age.

And I literally taught myself how to build computers and learned every aspect of it that I could.

And I just got a passion for technology.

I have a bachelor's degree today, but I have never been a big fan of school.

I have a learning disability, and it's just, it's always been a struggle for me.

So I didn't go to college, but what I did do is, you know, the bubble had just popped,

you know, the technology bubble.

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