Debora A. Plunkett

Ms. Plunkett has served in senior leadership positions in the National Security Agency (NSA) and brings to the Board more than 30 years of national security experience in critical mission areas, including cybersecurity and information assurance.

Ms. Plunkett served in positions of increasing responsibility at the NSA since 1984, most recently serving as Director, Information Assurance Directorate from April 2010 to November 2014, Deputy Director of Information Assurance from August 2008 to April 2010, and Senior Advisor to the Director from November 2014 to January 2016. Ms. Plunkett currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland University College since October 2014, a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center since July 2017 and as the Principal of Plunkett Associates LLC, a cybersecurity consulting firm, since January 2016. Since February 2017, she has also served as a director of J.C. Penney Company, Inc. Prior to this, she served as Director, Office of Transnational Threats, United States National Security Council at the United States White House from 2000 to 2001.