PERSON: Mona Harrington

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Assistant Director, National Risk Management Center

Mona Harrington was selected to lead the National Risk Management Center (NRMC) at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in September of 2022. As Assistant Director, she collaborates with public-private partners to identify, analyze, and mitigate risk from cyber and physical threats to critical infrastructure. Under her leadership, the NRMC is advancing its integrated analytic capabilities to support how government and industry share information, manage risk, and prepare and respond to threats.

Through the facilitation of strategic, cross-sector risk management efforts, Harrington oversees some of CISA’s key initiatives to include the securing of elections, emerging technologies, and supply chains. She is the governmental co-chair for the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force.

Assistant Director Harrington is an accomplished executive who brings over 20 years of Federal Government experience. She has worked in a variety of leadership roles requiring the direction of multi-million-dollar budgets. Her expertise spans cybersecurity, strategy, risk management, critical infrastructure, human capital, operations, and the implementation of best practices in critical infrastructure environments.

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