Christopher Krebs is a founding partner of the Krebs Stamos Group and the Senior Newmark Fellow in Cybersecurity at the Aspen Institute, where he co-chairs the Aspen Cybersecurity Group and previously co-chaired the Commission on Information Disorder. He is also a resident scholar at University of Virginia Center for Politics, a nonresident senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, and a CBS News contributor. From 2018 to 2020, Krebs was the first director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, where he led the national effort to defend businesses and government agencies against cyber threats. Before that, he was assistant secretary for infrastructure protection in the Homeland Security Department, among other positions, and led Microsoft’s US cybersecurity policy efforts.
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