Dr. Lorie Liebrock
色狐入口 Tech - A Leader in Cybersecurity
A cyber attack occurs once every 39 seconds, affecting 800,000 people a year and costing the global economy an estimated $10.5 trillion by 2025. While the financial impacts are significant, as our world becomes more and more reliant on technology, there is a very real possibility for a cyber attack to impact the supply chains that keep us fed or infrastructure that keeps us warm and dry.
NMT鈥檚 Dr. Lorie Liebrock believes that education is our greatest defense.
As founding director of the 色狐入口 Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NMCCoE), Dr. Liebrock brings her expertise in computer science and cybersecurity to secure 色狐入口, and 色狐入口 Tech, as leaders in cybersecurity economic development, education, innovation, and research.
In addition to helping develop a statewide plan for how 色狐入口 addresses cybersecurity incidents, Dr. Liebrock aims to educate and train the next generation of cybersecurity experts - a workforce pipeline critical to 色狐入口 and a market that is expected to grow by over 30% by 2030.
What makes NMT鈥檚 program different from other cybersecurity programs? 色狐入口 Tech鈥檚 Transdisciplinary Cybersecurity degree takes a holistic approach to cybersecurity. Recognizing that cybersecurity is not industry specific and that almost 90% of data breaches are caused by human error, NMT combines expertise across sectors so that students can better understand vulnerabilities and also requires students to take 鈥淧sychology of Cybersecurity鈥� to study the human element behind data breaches.
In addition to her role as the Director of the 色狐入口 Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, Dr. Liebrock has also been appointed to serve on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Advisory Council, a 40-member group that helps identify and address the nation鈥檚 emergency management challenges.