Philip R. Reitinger Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) and Director of the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC), U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Town Hall at RSA Conference 2011: Join NCSA and leading cybersecurity experts, including senior officials from the White House and key federal government agencies, for an in-depth dialogue about ways to increase collaboration in the face of more and more sophisticated threats in cyberspace. This will be an interactive Q&A with leading government cyber security officials and industry experts on topics that are important to risk managers in both the private and public sector, domestic and international.
Hosts:
- Shannon Kellogg, Senior Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy, EMC Corporation
- Michael Kaiser, Executive Director, National Cyber Security Alliance
Guests:
- Howard A. Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President & Cybersecurity Coordinator
- Philip Reitinger, Deputy Under Secretary, DHS
- Patrick Gallagher, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology & Director, NIST
Philip R. Reitinger was appointed by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano to serve as the Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) on March 11, 2009. In this role, Reitinger leads the Department’s integrated efforts to reduce risks across physical and cyber infrastructures. He oversees the coordinated operational and policy functions of the Directorate’s subcomponents, which include Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C), Infrastructure Protection (IP), Risk Management and Analysis (RMA), and the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program. On June 1, 2009 Reitinger also became the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC), which is charged with enhancing the security of federal networks and systems by collecting, analyzing, integrating and sharing information among interagency partners. In this role, Reitinger is responsible for coordinating situational awareness and reporting for federal cybersecurity organizations and personnel.
As Deputy Under Secretary for NPPD and Director of NCSC, Reitinger provides strategic direction to the Department’s cybersecurity efforts while ensuring preparedness and response capabilities across all federal computer systems.
Prior to joining DHS, Mr. Reitinger was the Chief Trustworthy Infrastructure Strategist at Microsoft Corporation. In that role, he worked with government agencies and private sector partners to enhance cybersecurity and infrastructure protection. In November 2001, Mr. Reitinger became the Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Cyber Crime Center, which provides electronic forensic services and supports cyber investigative functions at DOD. Before joining DOD, Mr. Reitinger was Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the U.S. Department of Justice. At the Department of Justice, Mr. Reitinger chaired the G8 subgroup on High Tech Crime. Reitinger has represented government and industry on critical information technology and security initiatives throughout his career, including the Industry Executive Subcommittee of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), where he chaired the Next Generation Networks Task Force. He was the first Chairman of the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode), the President of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), and a member of the Executive Committee of the IT Sector Coordinating Council (IT SCC). Mr. Reitinger was a member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency National Advisory Council and the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He was also a member of the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity, which developed recommendations for the 44th Presidency.
Reitinger holds a law degree from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University.
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