Debora A. Plunkett

Debora Plunkett is a cybersecurity leader with over 30 years of experience leading large, complex organizations. A former Director of Information Assurance at the National Security Agency, she is currently Principal of Plunkett Associates LLC, a consulting business. She is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center and an Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland. Ms. Plunkett served as the first Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) for Equality where she led efforts to develop and deliver solutions to improve equality, inclusion and diversity for the highly technical NSA workforce. She also served as Director on the National Security Council at the White House in the Administrations of Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush where she contributed to the development of national cybersecurity policies and programs.

Ms. Plunkett serves on the corporate boards of CACI International, Nationwide Insurance and BlueVoyant, and is a founding member and Chairman of the Board of Defending Digital Campaigns, a non-profit entity focused on providing free or low-cost cybersecurity services to federal election campaigns. Ms. Plunkett also serves on the New York State Cybersecurity Advisory Board and on the Board of Visitors of Towson University.