{"551041":{"#nid":"551041","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Keeping Our Secrets Safe: Alumni Leading at DHS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo data defenders, Georgia Tech alumni \u003Cstrong\u003EPhyllis Schneck\u003C\/strong\u003E, PhD CS \u002799, and \u003Cstrong\u003EAndy Ozment\u003C\/strong\u003E, CS \u002700, are at the helm of the nation\u0027s homeland cybersecurity response -- based in the Washington, D.C., area, but operating out of a multitude of undisclosed locations. Schneck and Ozment speak to Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine about their careers at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the national urgency behind what they do, and how Georgia Tech prepared them to take it on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/magazine.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;pgid=6659\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead More\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u0026nbsp;Phyllis Schneck, PhD CS \u002799, and Andy Ozment, CS \u002700, help lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u0027s cybersecurity team tasked with defending our data and infrastructure from the crooks, hackers, and worse - desperately trying to get their hands on them.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech alumni help lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s cybersecurity team that is defending our data and infrastructure from crooks and hackers."}],"uid":"27490","created_gmt":"2016-07-06 17:36:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:04","author":"Tara La Bouff","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"551051":{"id":"551051","type":"image","title":"Phyllis Schneck, PhD CS \u002799","body":null,"created":"1467982834","gmt_created":"2016-07-08 13:00:34","changed":"1475895348","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:48","alt":"Phyllis Schneck, PhD CS \u002799","file":{"fid":"93168","name":"secrets_schneck_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/secrets_schneck_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/secrets_schneck_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":90578,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/secrets_schneck_web.jpg?itok=m4HiZ4vt"}},"551061":{"id":"551061","type":"image","title":"Andy Ozment, CS \u002700","body":null,"created":"1467982834","gmt_created":"2016-07-08 13:00:34","changed":"1475895348","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:48","alt":"Andy Ozment, CS \u002700","file":{"fid":"93169","name":"secrets_ozment_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/secrets_ozment_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/secrets_ozment_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":79808,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/secrets_ozment_web.jpg?itok=y04tfc2O"}}},"media_ids":["551051","551061"],"groups":[{"id":"430601","name":"Institute for Information Security and Privacy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"543","name":"National Security"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}