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 a Lead 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.

 

Prior to 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 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.