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.
Thomas Santucci
Government Co-Chair
General Services Administration
Michaela Iorga
Government Co- Chair
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Annette Mitchell
Government Co-Chair
Internal Revenue Service
Mike Nicholson
Consultant Chair
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Retired
Tracy Bannon
MITRE Chair
MITREÂ
Aaron Lippold
MITRE Chair
MITRE
Gabriel Irizarry
Industry Co-Chair
IBM
Nicolas Chaillan
Industry Co-Chair
Ask Sage
Christopher Cinnamo
Industry Co-Chair
Zimperium
Michael Cardaci
Industry Co-Chair
FedHIVE
Eric Florence
Industry Co-Chair
Veracode
Kevin Greene
ATARC Board Liaison
OpenText Cybersecurity
Tristen Yancey
ATARC Board Laision
ZeroFox
Ivette Granier-Smith
ATARC Board Liaison
ASRC FederalÂ
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
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Retired
Carlos (JC) Vega
Advisor Chair
Executive Security Advisors
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
Dr. Amy Hamilton
Government Chair
Department of Energy, National Defense University, College of Information and Cyberspace
Gerald Caron
Industry Chair
RIVA Solutions
Michael Cardaci
Technical Project Manager
FedHIVE
Eric Florence
Industry Co-Chair
Veracode
Christine Rozzi
Industry Co-Chair
Lumen
Chris Young
Industry Co-Vice Chair
iboss
Anupam Shah
Industry Co-Chair
Resiliant
Matt Henson
Industry Co-Vice Chair
TC Engine
Lara George
Industry Co-Vice Chair
Walacor Corporation
Joe Brown
Industry Co-Vice Chair
Zimperium
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
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
Cheryl Jenkins
Government Vice Chair
General Services Administration
Kelvin Brewer
Industry Co-Chair
Ping Identity
Bryan Rosensteel
Industry Co-Chair
Ping Identity
David Treece
Industry Co-Vice Chair
Yubico
Gurpreet Manes
Industry Co-Vice Chair
Unifyia
Brian Dack
Industry Co-Vice Chair
Okta
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
Christopher Cinnamo
Industry Chair
Zimperium
Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO)
In a rapidly changing technical environment, it’s no secret that cybersecurity is more important than ever. External security requirements, tech refresh and tech insertions, and bad actors and threats are increasing every day, putting pressure on the traditional ATO processes and the tempo in which they are done.
The problem is clear: the RMF/ATO process simply takes too long. Agility is critical to implementing security measures and IT modernization, but the timeline for modernization and security upgrades continues to increase, and additional labor is not the answer.
Enter the continual ATO process, critical in compressing timelines and decreasing the effort brought on by thwarting cybersecurity threats, allowing for more frequent application and security updates and upgrades benefitting overall program modernization and security.
(Nita) Wyatte Jones-Coleman
Government Vice Chair
Department of Veterans Affairs
Brian Hajost
Industry Vice Chair
SteelCloud
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
Everfox
Mike Hudson
Consultant Chair
ClearForce
Jamison Mitchell
Government Co-Vice Chair
CDC
Jared Quance
Government Co-Vice Chair
USCG
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 Co-Chair
GSA
Jorge Laurel
Government Co-Chair
NSA
Brian Daly
Industry Vice Chair
AT&T
SCRM
Effective Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) strategies are vital for national security, economic stability, and public health. However, there is no standardization for SCRM across government agencies.
 In ATARC’s SCRM Working Group, we will seek to understand different programs’ unique approaches and best practices to improve security in the supply chain. We will holistically review the SCRM lifecycle, exploring in detail four major elements of the SCRM process: cyber, acquisition, intelligence, and logistics.
Robert Sheehan
Government Chair
Department of Health & Human ServicesÂ
Nick Mistry
Industry Chair
Lineaje
Alex Whitworth
Carahsoft Chair