Harry Cooper

Dr. Harry Cooper teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Cyber Counter Intelligence, Information Assurance, Cryptography, Cyber Defense, and other cyber courses at the University of Arizona and other institutions. Prior to his movement into teaching, he spent 13 years in the corporate sector before starting his own technology company, Thimbleweed Consulting, and subsequently TWC Security. He has over 20 years of experience in developing software and hardware products, and during the last 10 years, he has focused on research and development of security, intelligence, and forensic technologies. He is also very active in cyber counterintelligence and research and develops various cyber threat analyses. He is a "nut for puzzles and thought exercises," and highly encourages every student who wants to work in cybersecurity to spend as much time as possible on these types of activities.