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Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire I am Tia Hopkins, and I'm the VP of Global Solutions Architecture at East Endire

provider of managed detection and response services.

Thank you. East Endire provider of managed detection and response services. I just always had a curiosity for understanding how things work.

So, you know, when I got toys instead of playing with them, I would take them apart.

But I think that really sort of showed itself in terms

of what career path I'd probably end up going down around 11, 12 years old, when my mom bought

my first computer for me. And instead of getting it online and going on AOL, which was all the

raid back then, I took it apart. I was fascinated by all the pieces of it spread all

across my bedroom floor.

I attended the University of Miami, enrolled in computer engineering as my major, and quickly learned that that wasn't what I love.

And, you know, now I understand that I'm more of a technologist than an engineer.

So I like to understand how things work and, you know, put solutions together to drive outcomes.

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