President Biden recently named a group of industry leaders to his President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). The committee advises the White House on the reliability, security and preparedness of vital communications and information infrastructure.
There are some familiar, high-level executives from telecom companies among the new appointees, including Verizon’s Kyle Malady, AT&T’s Jeff McElfresh and T-Mobile’s Neville Ray.
Kyle Malady is the president of Global Networks and Technology at Verizon. Jeff McElfresh is the COO of AT&T. And Neville Ray serves as T-Mobile’s president of Technology.
President Biden also named Scott Charney as chairman of NSTAC. Charney currently serves as vice president for Security Policy at Microsoft.
Other executives recently named to NSTAC include:
- Noopur Davis, chief information security and product privacy officer for Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable.
- Kimberly Keever, chief information security officer for Cox Communications
- Jeff Storey, former CEO of Lumen Technologies and senior advisor to the Lumen Board
- Mark Dankberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Viasat
- Maria Martinez, COO at Cisco
- Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens Corporation
- Bryan Palma, CEO of Trellix
- Corey Thomas, CEO of Rapid7
- Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud
- Johnathon Caldwell, who is responsible for Lockheed Martin’s Military Space business
All these new appointees will join previously appointed NSTAC members to make policy recommendations.
In 2022 NSTAC published two reports and sent one letter to the President regarding standards.
In its report about zero trust security and trusted identity management, NSTAC recommended that the federal government use its procurement power to drive security behavior of organizations seeking to conduct business with the U.S. Government.