Cybersecurity Mission Area
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 and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). 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

Gary Bradt
Industry Chair
Lookout

Tristen Yancey
ATARC Board Laision
Keeper Security

Frank Lancaster
ATARC Board Laision
Virsec SystemsÂ

Kevin Greene
ATARC Board Liaison
Parasoft

Eugene Liderman
Industry Vice Chair (invited)

Mike Vande Woude
ATARC Board Liasion
CISA

Kiersten Patton
Program Manager
ATARC
Podcast on Cyber and Mobile: Listen here!
As government agencies implement their Zero-Trust strategies, the Device Pillar is critical towards “device attestation”. This goes hand-in-hand with Identity to ensure the mobile device is not compromised. Whether it is conditional access for O365, Mobile-EDR, GFE, or BYOD. Ensuring Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) is included in your strategy is paramount, as further amplified in OMB Mandates 21-31, 22-01, and 22-09.Â
ATARC Federal IT Newscasts

Jim Kovach
Podcast co-host
Zimperium

JT Keating
Podcast co-host
Zimperium

Kiersten Patton
Podcast Manager
ATARC
Podcast on Keeping US Federal Agencies Ahead of the Latest Vulnerabilities (Launching soon!)
Hostile nation-states and other bad actors relentlessly probe the networks of federal, state, and local governments. Constant visibility into all internet assets empowers government organizations to discover and remediate vulnerable assets before malicious actors get to them. Cortex Xpanse research shows that attackers start scanning the internet for vulnerable systems within minutes of a disclosure. Defenders need to be able to find their vulnerable assets just as fast to ensure critical systems are never at risk.

Joe Lin
Podcast Host
Palo Alto Networks

Kiersten Patton
Podcast Manager
ATARC
Podcast on Zero Trust (New episodes launching soon!)
All Federal agencies are moving to implement Zero Trust architectures as directed by last year’s Cybersecurity Executive Order, and some are key players in shaping implementation across Government. Agencies have different missions, resources, and no two are starting from exactly the same security posture. Join us to hear about the priorities, challenges, and successes some Federal agencies are encountering on their journey to implement zero trust.

Jim Richberg
Podcast Host
Fortinet

Kiersten Patton
Podcast Manager
ATARC
Zero TrustÂ
This 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
Department of Health and Human Services, OIG

Trafenia Salzman
Government Co-Chair
SBA

Amy Hamilton
Government Co-Chair
COE

Josh Brodbent
Industry Chair
BeyondTrust

Richard Toussaint
Industry Vice Chair
Forward Networks

Jason Brumfield
Industry Vice Chair
Lumen

Jason Greenwood
Industry Chair
Code42

Matt Venditto
Industry Vice Chair
iboss

Michael Cardaci
Technical Project Manager
FedHIVE

Chris Kirkendale
Lab Coordinator
ATARC

Hayley Dandreaux
ATARC Representative
ATARC
FISMA Security Metrics

Vincent Sritapan
Government Chair
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

David Harris
Government Vice Chair
Department of Interior

Mike Ligas
Industry Chair
 Lookout

Joe Brown
Industry Vice Chair
Zimperium

Hayley Dandreaux
Project Manager
ATARC
Global QuantumÂ
The function of this group is to assist the United States Federal Government and its Agencies, Committees, Subcommittees, Working Groups, Advisory Councils as well as United States Diplomats and other United States Foreign Service Officials in the execution of their charters as dictated by United States laws and the President’s executive orders.

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

Hayley Dandreaux
Project Manager
ATARC
Identity ManagementÂ
The group’s goal is to identify, understand, and provide strategic recommendations for challenges and barriers affecting the broader US Federal Community’s IdentityÂ
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Cheryl Jenkins
Government Chair
General Services Administration

Kelvin Brewer
Industry Chair
ForgeRock

David Treece
Industry Vice Chair
Yubico

Hayley Dandreaux
Project Manager
ATARC
State and Local Cyber Grants (coming soon!)

Bill Zielenski
Government Chair
City of Dallas

Sean Fay
Government Vice Chair
SC Law Enforcement Division

Trey Caryl
Government Vice Chair
State of New Hampshire

Michael Melore
Industry Chair
IBM

Kiersten Patton
Program Manager
ATARC
Supply Chain Risk Management (coming soon!)
The Supply Chain Risk Management Working Group is composed of the Federal government, academia and industry with the purpose of working collaboratively to identify, educate, and find reasonable solutions to address the challenges associated with cybersecurity risks that threaten America’s supply chain.

Nnake Nweke
Government Chair
GSA

Mike Vande Woude
Advisor Chair
ATARC Board

Robert Salvia
Fortress
Industry Vice Chair

Hayley Dandreaux
Project Manager
ATARC