Dr. Lorie Liebrock
New Mexico 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’s Dr. Lorie Liebrock believes that education is our greatest defense.
As founding director of the New Mexico Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NMCCoE), Dr. Liebrock brings her expertise in computer science and cybersecurity to secure New Mexico, and New Mexico Tech, as leaders in cybersecurity economic development, education, innovation, and research.
In addition to helping develop a statewide plan for how New Mexico addresses cybersecurity incidents, Dr. Liebrock aims to educate and train the next generation of cybersecurity experts - a workforce pipeline critical to New Mexico and a market that is expected to grow by over 30% by 2030.
What makes NMT’s program different from other cybersecurity programs? New Mexico Tech’s 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 “Psychology of Cybersecurity” to study the human element behind data breaches.
In addition to her role as the Director of the New Mexico 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’s emergency management challenges.