But that really started me into my computer security career because
I was able to see that other people like myself, had an advantage.
And how do I stop other people from gaining that advantage.
So now, I still play video games all the time.
Love playing first person shooters, like Battlefield,
within the past week I've played Battlefield 1 and
Battlefield 4, and Diablo, all kinds of different games.
I do play games with my students occasionally so,
if you send me your gamer tag, would be after the course.
That is, after you've completed it, then we'll set up a channel, or
something like that.
Anyway, so I've been the information security officer here
at the university and the HIPAA security officer.
But my passion now is being able to apply computer
security into the systems that I manage.
So being the director of operations, which includes telecom.
It includes all networking, it includes infrastructure for a,
what we we would call medium-size university, which is 13,000 students.
It gives me the opportunity to innovate again,
we're doing some really cool things.
So I'm going to take you into the data center right now or
we're going to just look over a few of the things that get me really excited about,
computer security and also system management.
But before we do that, what I want you to understand is
that everything that you're going to learn in these courses.
If you're just taking the system management and security specialization,
or if you're taking the computer security, or
for practical computer security specialization.
What I want you to understand is that this is
practical knowledge that I've had from years of experience.
I live and breathe this stuff everyday, you're going to walk into the data
center here in a second and see that this stuff really does exist.
This is really what I'm putting into practice, not just theory.
My teams live and breathe this stuff too,
so it's a combination of learning all the time, but also practicing.
And I hope that you see that throughout these classes.
Let's go take a look at the data center.
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