A Network Balancing Act: Efficiency, Security, and Public-Private Collaboration

Following graduation from USMA in 1989 with a degree in computer science, Dave Raymond branched Armor. He served as a tank platoon leader in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and as a battalion executive officer in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He also earned advanced degrees in computer science and engineering, and served two tours on the teaching faculty at USMA. In this interview, he discusses the career path that brought him into the cyber field, major threats to network security, the fundamentals of data protection, the trade-off between network efficiency and security, transparency concerns in the private sector, and ongoing trends in the cyber domain.