Ross Foard | IT Specialist (INFOSEC)
CISA

With over 20 years of public sector and commercial cybersecurity and identity and access management experience Ross supports DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as a senior engineer in the Architecture and Engineering Center of Excellence. Ross has expertise in the architecture and technical integration of several security domains and capabilities including Identity, Credentials and Access Management (ICAM), Cryptography, Data Protection and Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). Ross is the co-lead on the Federal Mobility Group (FMG) Derived PIV Working Group (DPIVWG) which shares information across federal agencies about industry practices in adopting phishing-resistant authenticators. Ross's professional goal is to help engineers and agency leaders understand how to identify and prioritize cybersecurity risk and continuously mitigate that risk through a strong focus on identity-centric ZTA.