The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the national security council used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security,military,and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House,it is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States,and composed of senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials.
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security,roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terrorism,border security,immigration and customs,cyber security,and disaster prevention and management.
The National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) is a division of the Office of Cyber Security &Communications,within the United States Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Formed from the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office,the National Infrastructure Protection Center,the Federal Computer Incident Response Center,and the National Communications System,NCSD opened on June 6,2003.
Keith Brian Alexander is a retired four-star general of the United States Army,who served as director of the National Security Agency,chief of the Central Security Service,and commander of the United States Cyber Command. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff,G-2 (Intelligence),United States Army from 2003 to 2005. He assumed the positions of Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service on 1 August 2005,and the additional duties as Commander United States Cyber Command on 21 May 2010.
ISACA is an international professional association focused on IT governance. On its IRS filings,it is known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association,although ISACA now goes by its acronym only. ISACA currently offers 8 certification programs,as well as other micro-certificates.
John Chris Inglis,generally known as Chris Inglis,is an American government official who served as the first National Cyber Director. Inglis is also a former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency. On April 12,2021 President Joe Biden nominated Inglis to serve as the first National Cyber Director. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on June 17,2021. He was sworn into office on July 11,2021. He resigned from the position on February 15,2023.
The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is an office of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for all intelligence and counterintelligence activities throughout the DOE complex. It was established in 2006 by the merger of pre-existing Energy Department intelligence and security organizations. Due to its central role,OICI is designated DOE's Headquarters Intelligence. As a component of the United States Intelligence Community in addition to the Department of Energy,OICI reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Energy.
Gabriel "Gabi" Siboni is a colonel in the Israel Defense Forces Reserve service,and a senior research fellow and the director of the Military and Strategic Affairs and Cyber Security programs at the Institute for National Security Studies. Additionally,he serves as editor of the tri-yearly published,Military and Strategic Affairs academic journal at INSS. Siboni is a senior expert on national security,military strategy and operations,military technology,cyber warfare,and force buildup. Siboni is an Associate Professor,working specifically in the management of Cyber Security and a part-time lecturer at the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid
Richard H. Ledgett Jr. is a former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency.
Brigadier GeneralGregory (Greg) J. Touhill is Director of the world renowned Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Division. Previously,he was the president of AppGate Federal Group . He was previously appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Federal Chief Information Security Officer of the United States,stepping down in January,2017. He was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary,Office of Cybersecurity and Communications,National Programs and Protection Directorate,Department of Homeland Security. While at DHS he concurrently served as Director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) during 2014–2015.
David J. Weinstein is an American cybersecurity executive and the former chief technology officer of New Jersey. He previously served at U.S. Cyber Command.
Kathleen M. Hamm is an American lawyer,federal regulator and fintech and cybersecurity expert,formerly a board member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board,and Counselor to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury for cyber policy and financial regulation. In April 2021,her alma mater,University at Buffalo School of Management,named her Accountant of the Year.
Phyllis Schneck is an American executive and cybersecurity professional. As of May 2017,she became the managing director at Promontory Financial Group. Schneck served in the Obama administration as Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD),at the Department of Homeland Security.
Robert E. Joyce is an American cybersecurity official who served as special assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator on the U.S. National Security Council. He also began serving as White House Homeland Security Adviser to President Donald Trump on an acting basis after the resignation of Tom Bossert from April 10,2018,to May 31,2018. He completed his detail to the White House in May 2018 and returned to the National Security Agency,where he served as the Senior Advisor to the Director NSA for Cyber Security Strategy,until July 2019 when he went to London and served in the US Embassy as the NSA's senior cryptologic representative to the UK. Joyce previously performed as acting Deputy Homeland Security Advisor since October 13,2017. On January 15,2021,the NSA announced that Joyce would replace Anne Neuberger as its Director of Cybersecurity.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of government,coordinating cybersecurity programs with U.S. states,and improving the government's cybersecurity protections against private and nation-state hackers. Cybersecurity is now considered as important part of individuals and families,as well as organizations,governments,educational institutions and our business. It is essential for families and parents to protect the children and family members from online fraud. The term cyber attack covers a wide variety of actions ranging from simple probes,to defacing websites,to denial of service,to espionage and destruction.
Jacob H. Braun is an American politician,cyber and national security expert. He was appointed by President Joseph Biden as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary's Senior Advisor to the Management Directorate,and as Senior Counselor for Transformation to the Secretary of Homeland Security from June 2021 - May 2023. He was later appointed as the Acting Principal Deputy National Cyber Director in The White House from May 2023 - July 2024. Braun is also a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies where he teaches courses on cyber policy and election security. He previously served as the Executive Director for the University of Chicago Harris Cyber Policy Initiative (CPI).
Christopher Cox Krebs is an American attorney who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security from November 2018 until November 17,2020,when President Donald Trump fired Krebs for contradicting Trump's claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Jen Easterly is an American intelligence officer and former military official who served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Biden administration. She was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate on July 12,2021.
Operational collaboration is a cyber resilience framework that leverages public-private partnerships to reduce the risk of cyber threats and the impact of cyberattacks on United States cyberspace. This operational collaboration framework for cyber is similar to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s National Preparedness System which is used to coordinate responses to natural disasters,terrorism,chemical and biological events in the physical world.
Phil Venables is a computer scientist who has been the chief information security officer (CISO) at Google Cloud since 2020. He specializes in information and cyber security,as well as enterprise risk and technology risk. Previous to Venables's position at Google,he held a number of roles at Goldman Sachs and served on the Board of Goldman Sachs Bank. Since 2021,he has also been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
