Andy Ozment will describe the view on cybersecurity from the White House, including the Administration's cybersecurity priorities and the current state of cybersecurity legislation. Andy will also discuss the implementation of Executive Order 13636 on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, which the President announced at the State of the Union.

Dr. Andy Ozment is the Senior Director for Cybersecurity at the White House. As one of two deputies to the Cybersecurity Coordinator, Andy leads a team of individuals who develop national policy and coordinate federal cybersecurity efforts in the areas of critical infrastructure protection, legislative proposals, executive branch security, privacy and civil liberties, information sharing, and incident response. In a prior stint at the White House, Andy led the effort to develop the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) and established the Administration’s priorities for federal agency cybersecurity.

Andy has previously worked in operational network security, as a programmer, in government policy, and as a researcher in different government agencies, academia, and industry. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, an MS in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.