Maria R. Sumnicht

National Cybersecurity Director for Critical Infrastructure at the Task Force on National and Homeland Security

Maria R. Sumnicht is National Cybersecurity Director for Critical Infrastructure at the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, where she focuses on protecting America’s critical infrastructure from cyber, physical and emerging technology threats. She advises government agencies, infrastructure operators and industry leaders on cybersecurity, operational technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), IoT and converged cyber-physical environments. Sumnicht brings more than three decades of experience spanning cybersecurity, networking, physical security and critical infrastructure engineering. Her career includes leadership roles with New York City Cyber Command, Cisco Systems, SurveillanceGrid, Lockheed Martin and NASA Ames Research Center, where she participated in incident response during the 1988 Morris Worm attack.