About the Event: In today’s digital world, more and more information and data is being stored online, in networks and on the cloud. The threats come not only from nearby cities, the digital environment has flattened geography as we know it. Join us for a conversation with Eric Botts, Director of University of St. Thomas’s Global Cybersecurity, about how geopolitics is being shaped in the new digital world.

About the Speaker: Eric C. Botts, Director, Global Cyber Security Program and Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of St. Thomas teaching courses on Cyber Warfare, Cyber Ethics, Enterprise Cybersecurity and Digital Governance. Mr. Botts received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from St. Mary’s University and a Master of Security Management degree from the University of Houston Downtown. After serving for 31 years in the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer (Santo Domingo, Seoul, Dublin, and Nassau), Assistant Director of the Houston Passport Agency, and an Information Systems Security Officer, Mr. Botts retired in 2014. He has worked in the private sector as a security project manager for Swailes Co. Inc. specializing in physical security, investigations, due diligence, travel security, digital forensics, and computer crimes.