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Our next presentation is from panelists David Imbordino,
Brigadier General William Hartman, Matthew Masterson,
Cynthia Kaiser, Maurice Turner, and moderator Bryson Bort.
David Imbordino is a Senior Executive
at the National Security Agency,
currently serving as the NSA Election Security Lead.
In this role, he is responsible
for overseeing agency activities and partnerships
in support of securing the 2020 US elections.
He has been with the NSA for over 18 years,
serving in various organizational, operational,
and project leadership roles in areas such as counterterrorism,
cybersecurity, counterintelligence,
and computer network operations.
Brigadier General William Hartman
assumed the position of Commander Cyber National Mission Force
on August 21st, 2019.
In this role, he serves as the Election Security Lead
for the Commander US Cyber Command.
He coordinates the prevention of and response
to cyber incidents and campaigns perpetrated by threat actors
in order to preserve US critical infrastructure and key resources.
Matt Masterson currently serves as Senior Cybersecurity Advisor
at the Department of Homeland Security,
where he focuses on election security issues.
He previously served as a Commissioner
at the Election Assistance Commission
from December 2014 until March 2018,
including serving as the Commission's Chairman in 2017 and 2018.
Cynthia Kaiser is the FBI's Deputy Chief of Analysis
for National Security Cyber Threats.
She has covered technology and counterintelligence issues
for over 14 years for the FBI
and has served as an FBI lead for cyber threats to elections since 2017.
In this role, she has led election threat analysis,
met regularly with state and local election officials,
promoted information sharing across all levels of government,
and collaborated with partners to help place the FBI
in the best possible position to impose risks and consequences
on cyber actors seeking to interfere in our elections.
Maurice Turner is Senior Advisor to the Executive Director
at the US Election Assistance Commission,
providing subject matter expertise in support of local, state,
and federal partners to administer elections fairly and securely.
Most recently, Turner was Deputy Director
of the Internet Architecture Project
at the Center for Democracy and Technology,
where he led the Election Security and Privacy Project.
Turner also served as a Tech Congress Congressional Innovation Fellow
assigned to the US Senate Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Our moderator today is Bryson Ford.
Bryson is founder of Scythe,
a startup building a next-generation attack emulation platform,
and Grimm, a boutique cybersecurity consultancy.
He is also co-founder of the ICS Village,
a nonprofit advancing awareness of industrial control system security.
He is a Senior Fellow for Cybersecurity and National Security
at R Street and the National Security Institute,
and is an advisor to the Army Cyber Institute and DHS CISA.