A Few Words About Me
Diane is a global top cyber award winner. Serves as senior executive & leader whose career spans legal, policy and executive management positions in the US Government at the National Security Agency, the Pentagon and the White House. Her expertise in cyber education, privacy & technology, information security, cyber/fiscal law, data governance, export control/foreign military sales, resource management & inclusion/diversity has informed all her work.
Awarded – 2020 Cyber Educator by Women Cyberjutsu; 2020 Top 100 Women in Cybersecurity by Cyber Defense Magazine; the 2020 CyberSecurity Impact Award by BusinessWire; 2020 CybHER Warrior Award, 2019 Cyber Warrior Women of the Year Award by Cybersecurity Association of Maryland; and 2019 Women in Cybersecurity Affiliate Leadership Award by WiCyS. Currently as NSA Commandant , National Cryptologic School, Diane leads 4 colleges that deliver offerings for the nation’s civilian/ military intelligence global workforce in signals intelligence, cyber/network security, cyber resilience, and encryption, and she also teaches at the National Intelligence University.
Earlier as Chief of Staff, NSA Technology Directorate, Diane managed personnel, provided guidance for compliance/data governance reporting, and oversaw audits responses. Before, serving as Associate Dir. of Technology for Information Security and Dep CISO for NSA, Diane proactively directed and managed information security/protection programs for key NSA systems. She led legal/compliance review of privacy controls of key intelligence programs as Chief Legal Officer, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Served as chief ethics officer & advocate for declassification of facts on collection programs. Before joining the NSA, Diane was Asst. to General Counsel of the Navy, and served as an attorney at the White House Counsel’s Office.
