Kim Withers

Kim Withers

College Of Arts And Sciences

Department of Computational, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences


Adjunct Faculty

SciTech 211
(210) 373-0899
kwithers@tamusa.edu
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Biography

 
Dr. Kim Withers joined Texas A&M San Antonio in Spring 2022 as a part-time faculty member in the field of Information Security/Cybersecurity. She currently serves as an Expert Member of Technical Staff-Cybersecurity in the Chief Security Organization (CSO) at AT&T. She provides development and network support for the threat analytics platform, Storm, to address AT&T’s cybersecurity mission. 
 
A seasoned security professional, she is responsible for the support and development of a complex and diverse Threat Management System (TMS) Platform, which serves the entire AT&T corporation. She is also involved with CSO’s YouTube online video program, AT&T ThreatTraq, as a guest contributor addressing industry-specific security threats.
 
In previous roles with formerly SBC DataComm, she served as a Sr. Security Engineer, where her duties included network system design activities, network and security deployments, review of design specifications, assessment of security and privacy protection features, and vulnerability assessments. As a Sr. LAN/WAN Engineer for AT&Ts Unified Messaging VOIP platform, she designed and managed network connectivity of the Unified Messaging Voice Mail platform to ensure mass market and AT&T Enterprise customers have 100% voice integration.
 
Before working for AT&T, she started her career out of college, working for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), as a government contractor for the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR). She would program in COBOL and JCL before, finding her true niche in networking and security. She would soon transfer with CSC to San Antonio and work for the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC) on the renowned Computer Security Engineering Team (CSET). She was part of teams that conducted security assessments (onsite and remote) of Air Force military bases around the world. IT Security, including penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, creation of proof of concept exploits, reverse and social engineering. She served as a Team Lead for penetration testing of Air Force networks using a variety of commercial and non-commercial tools and creating vulnerability assessment reports. Assigned lead for the perimeter security team and Tiger Team engagements. She was also the lead for designing and constructing security assessment labs consisting of a mesh of networking equipment and operating systems.

 

Awards

 
Year Name of the award
2006 Cloud & Parallel Computing
2009 Big Data Analysis and Management
2013 High-performance and Low-Power Real-Time Systems

 

Teaching Summary

 
Year Rank Company/Institute/University
2020-Present Adjunct Professor - Cybersecurity Kennesaw State University
2022-Present Adjunct Professor - Cybersecurity Texas A&M San Antonio
2022 Adjunct Professor - Computer Science Houston Christian University

 

Classes Observing

 
Course Code Course Name
CSE-121 Structured Programming
CSE-221 Algorithms
CSE-305 Theory of Computation
CSE-405 Network Security
CSE-439 Digital Image Processing

 

Resources

 

 

Publications

AMCIS Conference 2017 – Withers, K. L., Parrish, J. L., Terrell, S., & Ellis, T. J. (2017). The Relationship between the “Dark Triad” Personality Traits and Deviant Behavior on Social Networking Sites. https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2017/SocialComputing/Presentations/14/

HICSS-53 Conference 2020 - Withers, K., Parrish, J., Ellis, T., & Smith, J. (2020, January). Vice or Virtue? Exploring the Dichotomy of an Offensive Security Engineer and Government “Hack Back” Policies. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/63963/0180.pdf

US Patent - Withers, K., & Harten, J. (2019). Temporary Bluetooth Pairing.
U.S. Patent Application No. 16/166,479. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/53/6f/e6/dfb6c25dbc80b0/US10645738.pdf


US Patent – Withers, K, & Harten, J. (2024) – Pending Patent Number.

Course Teachings

SubjectNumberSectionDescriptionTermSyllabi
CISA 4326 600 Security & Operation Practicum Fall 2025 Syllabus
CETE 4481 600 Penetration Test Using Python Fall 2025 Syllabus
CSEC 3309 600 Scripting Languages Fall 2025 Syllabus
CISA 4323 601 Computer Forensics Fall 2025 Syllabus
CSEC 4483 600 Advanced Penetration Testing Fall 2025 Syllabus