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. 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.

Mike Nicholson
Government Co-Chair
DHS

Thomas Santucci
Government Co-Chair
General Services Administration

Michaela Iorga
Government Co- Chair
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Annette Mitchell
Government Chair
Internal Revenue Service

Nicolas Chaillan
Government Chair
US Air Force

Tracy Bannon
MITRE Chair
MITREÂ

Aaron Lippold
MITRE Chair
MITRE

Gabriel Irizarry
Industry Co-Chair
IBM

Georgia Weidman
Industry Co-Chair
Zimperium

Michael Cardaci
Industry Co-Chair
FedHIVE

Claire Bailey
Industry Co-Chair
Veracode

Jeff Miller
Industry Co-Vice Chair
NowSecure

Kenny Miltenberger
ATARC Board Liasion
USCG

Mike Vande Woude
ATARC Board Liasion
CISA

Kevin Greene
ATARC Board Liaison
OpenText Cybersecurity

Ivette Granier-Smith
ATARC Board Liaison
ASRC FederalÂ

Tristen Yancey
ATARC Board Laision
RegScale

Anil Karmel
ATARC Board Liaison
RegScale

Bill James
Advisor Chair
FedSmarts
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

Sid Sripada
Government Co-Chair

Amy Hamilton
Government Vice Chair
Department of Energy

Kapil Bareja
Advisor Chair
MIT

Claire Bailey
Industry Co-Chair
Veracode

Christine Rozzi
Industry Co-Chair
Lumen

Anupam Shah
Industry Co-Chair
Resiliant

Josh Brodbent
Industry Co-Chair
Beyond Trust

Chris Young
Industry Co-Vice Chair
iboss

Joe Brown
Industry Co-Vice Chair
Zimperium

Raj Dasgupta
Industry Co-Vice Chair
RIVA Solutions

Matt Henson
Industry Co-Vice Chair
TC Engine

Lara George
Industry Co-Vice Chair
Walacor Corporation

Manjit Singh
Industry Co-Vice Chair
Agilious

Brian Egenrieder
Industry Co-Vice Chair
SyncDog

Michael Cardaci
Technical Project Manager
FedHIVE

Elizabeth Wyckoff
Working Group Program Manager
ATARC
Global Quantum

Lily Chen
Government Co-Chair
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Jason Lee
Government Co-Chair
General Services Administration

Allison Schwartz
Industry Chair
D-Wave Systems Inc.

Terril Frantz
Academic Chair
Drexel University

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 State and Local Cyber Grants Working Group’s mission is to increase access to cyber security services for state and local governments.
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The group will establish guidance 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, with the aim of improving the speed and approval rate of participating entities.Â

Sean Fay
Government Chair
SC Department of Social Services

Michael Melore
Industry Chair
IBM

Elizabeth Wyckoff
Program Manager
ATARC
Baseline Cybersecurity Best Practices: An Overview for Success in Applying for the State and Local Cybersecurity Program
Intermediate Best Practices: Advancing Cybersecurity Posture Through Zero Trust Architecture
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

Georgia Weidman
Industry Chair
Zimperium

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.

(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
Secure 5G
The mission of the Secure 5G Working Group is to advance communication between Government, industry, and academia, through identifying Secure 5G infrastructure and policies.
5G is opening the door to many emerging technologies that will be game-changing for the Government. Ultimately, agencies want to achieve the many benefits of fast and reliable 5G while operating through trusted networks. Securing 5G involves addressing threats to infrastructure, supply chain, and networks, while also standardizing policies and environments to ensure a frictionless user experience. The Secure 5G Working Group will be poised to develop strategies and tools to help improve the security posture when it comes to 5G Technology Solutions for the Government.
Learn what Government experts at the ATARC-hosted roundtable shared about agencies moving 5G systems beyond prototyping in the coming years, and related needs to evaluate security and risks throughout the increasingly complex ecosystem of end user equipment, radio access networks, 5G core networks, and edge computing systems.

Ben Camerlin
Government Chair
GSA

Brian Daly
Industry Vice Chair
AT&T

Elizabeth Wyckof
Program Manager
ATARC