Senior Advisor, Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy
U.S. Department of Energy

Cheri Caddy was the Deputy Assistant National Cyber Director for Cyber R&D in the Office of the National Cyber Director at the White House. In this role, she led development of the National Cybersecurity Strategy and implementation efforts related operational technology, electric vehicles and clean energy technology, technical standards, and software liability.

Prior to ONCD, Ms. Caddy was the Senior Technical Advisor for Cybersecurity in CESER at the Department of Energy. At DOE, she led strategy development and execution of cybersecurity policy, technology, and critical infrastructure protection programs, managing an annual portfolio of $50 million in cybersecurity R&D at the National Laboratories. She developed and launched DOE’s congressionally-directed cyber supply chain security program, DOE’s cyber vulnerability testing program, and efforts to ensure cybersecurity for renewable technologies. As Executive Director of the Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force, Ms. Caddy developed and led a senior technical public-private partnership to produce the congressionally-directed National Cyber-Informed Engineering Strategy and global security standards for industrial control systems. She also sponsored and served on the board of the Cyber Manufacturing Innovation Institute.

Previously, Ms. Caddy spent five years as the National Security Agency’s Executive Director of Enduring Security Framework, a joint program comprising DoD, DHS, the Intelligence Community, and industry leaders in the defense, IT, and communications sectors to collectively address intelligence-informed technical and operational cyber vulnerabilities and risks to national security systems and critical infrastructure.

Prior to NSA, Ms. Caddy was Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council for 2.5 years during the Obama Administration.

Over her 30-year federal career, Ms. Caddy has served in a wide variety of roles in the Defense, Intelligence, and Foreign Service communities with portfolios spanning cybersecurity, technology, policy, R&D, international trade and economics, and foreign affairs.

Ms. Caddy holds a B.A. in International Studies from Norwich University, Military College of Vermont; an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; and an M.P.A. in Public Administration from the American University in Washington, DC.