-: Two reasons, one is I like dealing with students.
I particularly like dealing with adult students.
I'm a graduate of UMUC myself, in the technology program,
so I've seen it from both sides.
When I took this job, I realized it was an opportunity
to more directly work with students and faculty
than I had as an adjunct professor.
The other thing is the subject matter.
I mean, it covers a lot of areas.
I'm a lawyer by background, among other things,
as well as having done policy in the Defense Department.
And so, all of these issues that I've encountered
in my career kind of come together in cybersecurity.
I taught myself programming, not to a really high level
that I could actually write a program.
But, you know, those are the days
before you had Windows and we were dealing with DOS,
so you had to learn how to do line commands.
I got involved in cybersecurity when I was dealing with,
I was working for a defense contractor,
and we were having to send documents overseas.
The American Bar Association had said
if you send something by email,
you lost the privilege of the document
because email in those days was considered so insecure.
I devised a method of encrypting the documents
so that we could deal with offices around the world
and yet make sure that those documents could not be hacked
into by somebody who shouldn't see them.
So that's preserving the attorney-client privilege.