CYBERSecurity Mission Area

Cybersecurity Mission Area

Cybersecurity is a massive topic. It also evolves very rapidly in the government, not just from a constant increase in attack volume and types, but also from a stream of new policies and executive orders creating new requirements for agencies. View a collection of policies and guidance put together by ATARC Board member, Bill Hunt, at the following link.

Leadership Team

The ATARC Cybersecurity Leadership provides direction, guidance, and support to the various groups of project team Leaders and members in the Cybersecurity Working Group, The Leadership team exists for the purpose of helping the project teams achieve their goals, and coordinate between cross-cutting topics.

Cybersecurity Leadership is continuously conceiving and developing new initiatives, such as the state and local cyber grant program. These initiatives are at various stages of maturity towards becoming independent Working Groups, please contact us with your specific interests. In these groups, we hope to address many further-future-looking ideas and concepts including cyber range exercises, higher education, healthcare, etc.

Gabriel Irizarry

Industry Chair

IBM

Mike Nicholson

Government Chair

DHS

Kenny Miltenberger

ATARC Board Liasion

USCG

Joe Brown

Industry Chair

Zimperium

Tristen Yancey

ATARC Board Laision

RegScale

Frank Lancaster

ATARC Board Laision

Fidelis Cybersecurity

Kevin Greene

ATARC Board Liaison

OpenText Cybersecurity

Eugene Liderman

Industry Vice Chair (invited)

Google

Mike Vande Woude

ATARC Board Liasion

CISA

Cyber Cooperative Leadership Team

The Cyber Cooperative Leadership Team will leverage, build, and unify the cyber defense capability and capacity of participating and partner organizations. It is in direct response and intended to support the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) collaborative efforts. The Cyber Cooperative Leadership Team will provide a process and framework to directly engage and leverage their capability, capacity, and expertise to amplify their mission, reach, and desired outcomes in order to build, maintain, and sustain a unified cyber defense.

Mike Nicholson

Government Chair

CISA

Michael Melore

Industry Chair

IBM

Carlos (JC) Vega

Advisor Chair

Executive Security Advisors

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Program Manager

ATARC

Zero Trust

The Zero Trust Working Group will focus on Zero Trust and how we need to be thinking differently about security, risk, & governance. The topics covered will include the convergence of government policies and moving to a continuous compliance model. Members will also discuss the Importance of AI while using unsupervised machine learning to enhance the mission of your agency or organization.

Working Groups

Gerald Caron

Government Co-Chair

International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce

Amy Hamilton

Government Co-Chair

Department of Energy

Josh Brodbent

Industry Chair

BeyondTrust

Christine Rozzi

Industry Chair

Lumen

Anupam Shah

Industry Chair

Resiliant

Chris Young

Industry Vice Chair

iboss

Raj Dasgupta

Industry Vice Chair

RIVA Solutions

Michael Cardaci

Technical Project Manager

FedHIVE

Chris Kirkendale

Lab Coordinator

ATARC

Elizabeth Wyckoff

ATARC Representative

ATARC

Global Quantum

The Global Quantum working group brings together quantum technology experts in Government, Industry, and Academia, to share news, current events, best practices, and host guest speakers in the quantum realm, discussing multiple aspects of quantum technology, including computing, sensing, communications, and networking, and more.

Lily Chen

Government Chair

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Allison Schwartz

Industry Chair

D-Wave Systems Inc.

Terril Frantz

Academic Chair

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Program Manager

ATARC

Identity Management

The Identity Management Working Group’s goal is to identify, understand, and provide strategic recommendations for challenges and barriers affecting the broader US Federal Community’s Identity Credential and Access Management (ICAM) deployments and offerings. Then, in close alignment with government entities such as OMB for policy and NIST for guidance, the ATARC Identity Team aims to provide strategic recommendations to remove any identified barriers and accelerate adoption of ICAM best practices to increase efficiency and reduce cost using cutting-edge identity solutions.

Ross Foard

Government Chair

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Cheryl Jenkins

Government Vice Chair

General Services Administration

Kelvin Brewer

Industry Co-Chair

ForgeRock

Bryan Rosensteel

Industry Co-Chair

Ping Identity

David Treece

Industry Co-Vice Chair

Yubico

Brian Dack

Industry Co-Vice Chair

Okta

Gurpreet Manes

Industry Co-Vice Chair

ImproveID

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Program Manager

ATARC

State and Local Cyber Grants

The purpose of the State and Local Cyber Grants Working Group is to:

Establish guidelines and assistance documentation for state and local government organizations applying for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) cyber grants.
Identify recommended uses of DHS and CISA cyber grant funding.
Develop a biennial (every 2 years) paper for DHS and CISA identifying critical needs for state and local organizations for future cyber grant initiatives.
Develop periodic, official correspondence from the Working Group to members of Congress advocating for increased cyber grant program funding outlying identified critical needs.

Sean Fay

Government Chair

SC Department of Social Services

Trey Caryl

Government Vice Chair

State of New Hampshire

Michael Melore

Industry Chair

IBM

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Program Manager

ATARC

Cybersecurity Higher Education and Workforce Development

The Cybersecurity Higher Education and Workforce Development Working Group’s vision is to build a collaborative framework of educators, industry, and government to provide strategic recommendations on enhancing national cybersecurity education and workforce development. The group will recommend policy, best practices, and tools for the implementation of innovative and comprehensive national career pathways at all levels of education as well as trade schools.

Keith Clement

Academic Chair

California State University, Fresno

Eric Wall

Academic Co-Vice Chair

University of Arkansas System

Gregory Cooper

Academic Co-Vice Chair

New Mexico State University

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Program Manager

ATARC

Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO)

Due to growing cybersecurity infrastructure and increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats, continuous monitoring of information security systems through automation is the best way to accurately assess vulnerability across a complex threat landscape.

However, continuous monitoring of information security systems has several challenges to address, including technology, governance, controls evolution, data models, standardized frameworks, data sharing, and auditor evolution, just to name a few.

Zach Baldwin

Government Chair

General Services Administration

(Nita) Wyatte Jones-Coleman

Government Vice Chair

Department of Veterans Affairs

Brian Hierholzer

Industry Chair

Auditmation

Brian Hajost

Industry Vice Chair

SteelCloud

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Program Manager

ATARC

Insider Risk

The Insider Risk Working Group’s Mission is to expand and enhance the ongoing conversation around human capital risk in a collaborative environment, sharing best practices, lessons learned from government, industry, academia and subject matter experts in order to support organizational risk reduction, workplace and individual safety.