I'm pursuing my master's degree at Poly in computer engineering, and will graduate in May of 2007. I completed my bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications in Mumbai, India (where I'm from), and have been interested in science and engineering for as long as I can remember. It was only after relocating to the U.S., however, that I was first exposed to the mystery-filled world of information security, and it has held my interest ever since. Within security, I'm specifically interested in risk management and analysis and network monitoring. In India, I completed a year-long internship at Hutchison Max Telecom. My project involved some research in GSM, along with building an alarm system that raised alerts in case of any infrastructural failure at the BTS sites. Here at Poly, I worked on Nabs (Network Abuse Detection System) in its final stage, for which I had to perform some system testing and write a manual.

I'm currently doing an internship with the information security team at Goldman Sachs, where I'm working on a threat and vulnerability management system and building modules to increase its functionality. In my view, one of the great things about New York is the fact that it has so many financial firms, which require a large number of information security professionals.

My interests outside of security include traveling and reading. Ayn Rand is my favorite writer, and I think her books Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and We the Living aptly capture human ambitions and responses, as well as life's many challenges. In addition to Ayn Rand's books, The Da Vinci Code is another one of my favorites.

I believe that if we dare to dream, we have to do more than dare to make our dreams come true.

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