Tribe of Hackers

12Ming Chow

“Having a computer science degree doesn’t mean you know anything about cybersecurity—or even how to program, for that matter.”

Twitter: @0xmchow • Website: www.cs.tufts.edu/~mchow (will redirect you to mchow01.github.io)

Ming Chow is a senior lecturer at the Tufts University Department of Computer Science. His areas of interest are web and mobile security and computer science education. Ming has spoken at numerous organizations and conferences, including the HTCIA, OWASP, InfoSec World, Design Automation Conference (DAC), DEF CON, Intel, SOURCE, HOPE, and BSides. Since 2014, he has served as a mentor to a BSides Las Vegas Proving Ground track speaker—a track focused on helping new speakers in the information security and hacker communities acclimate to public speaking. Ming was named the 2016 Henry and Madeline Fischer Award recipient at Tufts; the award is given annually to a faculty member of the School of Engineering and judged by graduating seniors of the School of Engineering to be “Engineering’s Teacher of the Year.” He was named the 2017 recipient of the Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Advising at Tufts, which is awarded annually to a faculty member who has had a profound intellectual impact on students, both inside and outside the classroom.

If there is one myth that you could debunk in cybersecurity, what would it be?

That you need ...