Career
Galante served in intelligence analysis roles at the Department of State and the Defense Intelligence Agency where she was a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor leading a strategic cyber threat analysis team. [6]
In 2012,she joined cybersecurity and incident response firm,Mandiant. In 2014 Mandiant was acquired by FireEye and Galante held leadership positions across the company’s threat intelligence business and directed a number of public reports attributing nation state hacking operations [7] [8] [9] [10] including Moscow-sponsored,APT28. [11] She served as the Director of Global Intelligence at FireEye until her departure in March 2017 and subsequently established a consulting practice,Galante Strategies LLC. [12] [13] At TED2017,Galante gave a talk titled,“How (and why) Russia Hacked the US Election.” [14] [15]
Through her consultancy,Galante led cybersecurity programs for USAID in Ukraine [16] and the Ukraine Election Task Force. [17] She also served as an expert witness who attributed the NotPetya cyber attack on multinational businesses in Ukraine to Russia’s GRU. [18]
In 2019,Galante ran for the 18th District seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates. [19] She won the Democratic primary [20] and lost the general election to the Republican incumbent,Micheal Webert. [21]
In May 2022,Galante was tapped as the Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center,reporting to the Director of National Intelligence. [22] She served concurrently as the Intelligence Community’Cyber Executive. [3] Under Galante’s leadership,CTIIC has focused on further integrating commercial intelligence in the IC and bolstering public-private partnerships. [23]
In 2024,CTIIC released multiple unclassified intelligence products detailing ransomware attacks on US and global entities and other successful cyber operations against US critical infrastructure sectors. [24] [25] Galante has spoken frequently about the evolution of the Intelligence Community’s commercial cyber partnership model and its role in securing US critical infrastructure. [26] [27]
In 2025,Galante joined WestExec Advisors as a Principal. She serves on the advisory board of Billington Cybersecurity [28] and as a member of the Principals Committee for The Cipher Brief's Cyber Initiatives Group [29]
Galante testified about Chinese cyber operations to the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party [30] and in April 2025 at the House Committee Hearing on "Global Networks at Risk:Securing the Future of Telecommunications Infrastructure." [31]
Galante is a frequent keynote speaker on geopolitical threats to digital infrastructure and is represented by The Lavin Agency [32] and A-Speakers. [33]
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