Cynthia Wright

Cynthia Wright is a retired U.S. military officer with over 25 years of experience in national security, cyber strategy and policy. She is presently a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer and Cyber Strategy Capability Area Lead for the MITRE Corporation, where she co-developed a methodology to assess and build the cyber capacity of developing nations that has been used by the U.S. State Department in four countries to date, and regionally in West Africa and Eastern Europe. She also assisted DHS in drafting the U.S. National Cyber Incident Response Plan and incentivizing market-driven approaches to cyber risk management. Ms. Wright has taught graduate-level courses in National Security and Strategy, and was a member of the international expert team assisting the OAS in formulating a stakeholder engagement approach for Mexico’s national digital strategy. She holds a Master’s degree in National Resource Strategy (NDU), and two additional Masters in military and interdisciplinary studies.