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Maria Harika is a MS in Cyber Security: Cyber Crime Investigation Candidate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and a Cyber Intelligence Analyst and Supervisor at the UAB Computer Forensics Research Lab. She previously served as a research assistant with MEI’s Cyber & Emerging Technology Program.