Principal at Plunkett Consulting. Mrs. Plunkett is a Retired Federal Senior Executive that served first as the Deputy Director and thereafter as the Director of the National Security Agency’s Information Assurance Directorate. As the leader of the NSA’s cyber defense, cryptography and information systems security missions, Mrs. Plunkett directed thousands of the NSA’s worldwide personnel to enable continuous innovation and development of strong security solutions and policies for protecting the US government’s classified communicatons, serving the needs of consumers from the White House to the war fighter.