Phyllis Schneck is an American executive and cybersecurity professional. As of May 2017, she became the managing director at

Promontory Financial Group Promontory Financial Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM, is a global consulting firm that advises clients on a variety of financial services matters, including regulatory issues, compliance, risk management, liquidity, restructuring, acqui ...

. Schneck served in the

Obama administration Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican ...

as Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the

National Protection and Programs Directorate The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that is responsible for strengthening cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of government, ...

(NPPD), at the

Department of Homeland Security The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terr ...

Career

She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech. She was chairman of the board of directors of the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance, a partnership between corporations, government and law enforcement for cyber analysis to combat international cybercrime. Schneck also served as the vice chairman of the

National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

information security Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorize ...

and privacy advisory board. Schneck spent eight years as chairman of the national board of directors of the FBI's

InfraGard InfraGard is a national non-profit organization serving as a public-private partnership between U.S. businesses and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The organization is an information sharing and analysis effort serving the interests, and comb ...

program, growing the organization from 2,000 to over 30,000 members nationwide. Schneck was service vice president of research integration for

Secure Computing Corporation Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) was a public company that developed and sold computer security appliances and hosted services to protect users and data. McAfee acquired the company in 2008. The company also developed filtering systems used ...

, where she conceived and built the early intelligence practice into a data-as-a-service program. She also worked as vice president of corporate strategy at SecureWorks, and founder and CEO of Avalon Communications, which was acquired by SecureWorks. Prior to joining government in 2013, Schneck worked in the private sector, at McAfee. She testified before Congress on cybersecurity technology and policy. On October 14, 2019, Schneck joined

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 90,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military techn ...

as vice president and chief information security officer.

Government position

From 2013 to 2017, Schneck served in the Obama administration as the Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). She was the chief cybersecurity official for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and supported its mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure.

Awards

Loyola University Maryland Loyola University Maryland is a private Jesuit university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established as Loyola College in Maryland by John Early and eight other members of the Society of Jesus in 1852, it is the ninth-oldest Jesuit college in the ...

David D. Lattanze Center 2012 Executive of the Year * Information Security Magazine's Top 25 Women Leaders in Information Security *

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

Woodrow Wilson Award 2016

References

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