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The Worm That Crashed the Early Internet (1988 — The Morris Worm)

Tony DeGonia October 2, 1988

On a cold November night in 1988, the glow of a lone monitor lit up a quiet lab at Cornell University. Robert Tappan Morris — 23 years old, brilliant, restless, and carrying the curiosity only early hackers possessed — leaned back in his chair as he compiled the final lines of code.

Tony DeGonia

Tony DeGonia is a seasoned Senior Sales Engineer specializing in SIEM, SOAR, MDR/XDR, SASE, Zero Trust, and enterprise network security design. With a proven track record supporting global and public sector environments, Tony delivers technical discovery, architecture development, POCs, and executive-level presentations for mission-critical cybersecurity programs. His experience spans AT&T Cybersecurity (SLED Public Sector), IBM Security QRadar Suite, Fortra Alert Logic, and multiple emerging security startups. Tony is known for his deep technical fluency across firewall architecture, threat detection engineering, cloud networking, encryption, and multi-vendor integrations — and for helping organizations turn complex security challenges into actionable solutions.

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