Head of NSA, U.S. Cyber Command Visits Georgia Tech to Discuss Excellence, Recruiting, and Cybersecurity

Army General Paul Nakasone believes the U.S. does at least two things better than any other country.

“We make code. We break code,” Nakasone told a class of Georgia Tech College of Computing students during a guest lecture on Jan. 18.

Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, always looks to recruit the brightest minds to bolster the nation’s security. That’s one reason he visited the College of Computing after hearing about Georgia Tech winning its third consecutive NSA Codebreaker Challenge...