Zachary Tudor

Associate Laboratory Director, National and Homeland Security, Idaho National Laboratory, USA

 

Zachary (Zach) Tudor is the associate laboratory director of Idaho National Laboratory’s National and Homeland Security Science and Technology directorate, a major U.S. center for national security technology development and demonstration, employing some 800 scientists and engineers across over $550 million in programs for the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the intelligence community. He is responsible for INL’s Nuclear Nonproliferation, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Defense Systems missions. Previously, Tudor served as a program director in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International, where he supported cybersecurity and critical infrastructure programs, such as DHS Cyber Security Division’s Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cybersecurity Consortium and the Industrial Control System Joint Working Group R&D working group. He is the former board of directors chair of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2). He is a professor of practice in the computer science departments of the University of Idaho and Idaho State University and a member of Virginia’s Commonwealth Cyber Initiative advisory board. A retired U.S. Navy submarine electronics limited duty officer and chief data systems technician, Tudor holds an M.S. in information systems, with a concentration in cybersecurity, from George Mason University, where he was also an adjunct professor teaching graduate courses in information security.

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