Matthew Travis
Matthew Travis | |
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| Deputy Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | |
| In office November 16, 2018 – November 17, 2020 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Nitin Natarajan[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 years old Terre Haute, Indiana |
| Education | University of Notre Dame Georgetown University |
Matthew Travis is a businessman and former American government official.
Career
Travis graduated from the
U.S.S. CARR (FFG 52) as the Engineering Auxiliaries Officer as well as the maritime interdiction boarding officer in the Northern Red Sea following Operation Desert Storm.[7]
Upon leaving military service in 1998, Travis began a career in government consulting.[2] He built the Homeland Security team at DFI before its merger with Detica and following the firm's acquisition by BAE Systems.[8][9] In 2010, Travis co-founded Obsidian Analysis,[10] a homeland security consulting firm, which was acquired by Cadmus in 2016.[11]
Travis joined the Trump Administration as Deputy Under Secretary for DHS'
NPPD in March 2018.[6] In November 2018, Congress passed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, creating CISA as a component of DHS and elevating NPPD into CISA.[12] Travis served as the Deputy Director of that new agency,[13] until the White House pressured him to resign on November 17, 2020.[14]
References
- ^ "NITIN NATARAJAN". Department of Homeland Security. February 16, 2021. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
- ^ a b Johnson, By Derek B. (March 20, 2018). "NPPD taps vendor for No. 2 role". FCW. Archived from the original on 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ Miller, Maggie (2020-12-10). "Top election security official to leave federal cybersecurity agency". TheHill. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
- ^ Heckman, Jory (2018-08-29). "NPPD builds on reorg momentum in renewed pitch for name change". Federal News Network. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ "DHS Official: NRMC Is 'Long Game' in U.S. Cyber Defense – MeriTalk". Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ a b "Matthew Travis". Department of Homeland Security. 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ a b "Norwich University to host cybersecurity summit - VTDigger". vtdigger.org. 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ Hubler, David (2007-02-05). "DFI, Detica merge". FCW. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ "Our History". BAE Systems | Cyber Security & Intelligence. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ "Cadmus Completes Deal to Acquire Obsidian Analysis". Cadmus. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ "Obsidian Analysis, Acquired by The Cadmus Group LLC on February 4th, 2016 | Mergr". mergr.com. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ Rockwell, Mark (2018-10-19). "DHS official: 'We're not Consumer Reports'". FCW. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ Rockwell, Mark (2018-12-20). "Standing up CISA". FCW. Archived from the original on 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ Cyber agency tells employees not to ‘lose focus’ after Trump fires director, Politico 2020-11-18