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)

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

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

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:Â
- 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.Â
- Identify recommended uses of DHS and CISA cyber grant funding.Â
- Develop a biennial (every 2 years) paper for DHS and CISA identifying critical needs for state and local organizations for future cyber grant initiatives.Â
- 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.Â
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.

John Massey
Government Chair
USAF

Michael Crouse
Industry Chair
Forcepoint

Mike Hudson
Consultant Chair
ClearForce

Jamison Mitchell
Government Co-Vice Chair
CDC

Jared Quance
Government Co-Vice Chair
USCG

Elizabeth Wyckoff
Program Manager
ATARC