Robert Liscouski is a partner in Secure Strategy Group, LLC, a New York and Washington DC based investment bank dedicated to backing and building market leaders in the security and defense technology sectors. He is also founder and Managing Director of Edge360 an enterprise risk management and technology solutions firm and a founder of Steel City Re, a firm specializing in reputation risk and intangible asset risk management. Previously, Director of Information Assurance, The Coca-Cola Company and President and CEO of Content Analyst Company, LLC, a developer of text analytics software.
Prior to this, Mr. Liscouski was appointed as the first Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, when the Department of Homeland Security was founded in 2003 and served in that position under Secretary Tom Ridge until 2005. As Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, Mr. Liscouski led the development and implementation of the nation’s efforts to protect its critical infrastructure from terrorist attacks and natural disasters. He led the development of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, the nation’s risk management framework to protect its national infrastructure. Under Mr. Liscouski’s leadership, the Department created the National Cyber Security Division and the US CERT, the US government’s effort to identify and counter cyber security threats. Mr. Liscouski led the Department’s efforts to create legislation (CFATS) to protect the US Chemical Sector and was the executive manager of the National Communications Systems (NCS).
He is formerly the President and CEO, and is a current board member, of Content Analyst Company, LLC, a developer of text analytics software. Previously, he was Director of Information Assurances at the Coca-Cola Company and Vice President of the Law Enforcement Division of Orion Scientific Systems, a developer of advanced analytic software tools. Earlier in his career, he served as a Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent with the US Department of State and a Homicide and Undercover Investigator for the Bergen County, NJ Prosecutors Office.
Mr. Liscouski also is currently serving as a member of the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory board on Science and Technology reporting to the Director of National Intelligence and is a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies as Washington DC-based think tank.
Mr. Liscouski earned an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a BS in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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