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Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire. My name is Maria Thompson Saab and I am the senior program manager for governance risk and compliance at Alumio.

Thank you. in compliance at Illumio. I had decided long back that I wanted to study information systems management.

So I went to college and I studied information systems management at the University of Maryland University College.

When I was growing up, we didn't really have computers in my home, but, you know, it was something that seemed interesting to me.

And because I didn't have a computer, I felt, oh, this is interesting and I want to learn more about it so when I had the opportunity to go to

college I figured it would be something that I definitely wanted to look into I

can certainly say there were a lot of challenges because when I first decided I wanted to

study computers, I thought, oh, I'm going to study computer science. And so not knowing that,

you know, with computer science, there's a lot of math, and math was not my strong suit. Although I wasn't really

strong in math, I still wanted to study computers, and I wanted to be involved in that

type of work. And that's how I ended up with information systems management, because I didn't

have to have a whole lot of math.

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