Mr. Gary Gagnon

Vice President
Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems

Corporate Director of Cyber Security

Mr. Gary Gagnon, a leader in the fields of information operations, cyber crime, and critical infrastructure security protection, is The MITRE Corporation's corporate director of cyber security. Working closely with MITRE's leadership, he is responsible for developing the company's cyber security strategy and executing all cyber work program activities across the company's federally funded research and development centers and all government customers. In addition, he is responsible for MITRE's internal cyber security program and the use of company systems as a test bed for providing recommended actions to government customers.

Concurrent with his cyber security responsibilities, Mr. Gagnon serves as a vice president in MITRE's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. In this role, he focuses on support to the U.S. intelligence agencies, military intelligence organizations, and the combatant commanders with an emphasis on cyber issues within the Intelligence Community.

Previously, Mr. Gagnon was executive director for MITRE's National Security Programs. He supported civilian intelligence organizations, applying and integrating sound systems engineering, research and analysis, and innovative technology to address a range of intelligence challenges within the homeland and national security mission areas. Earlier, as director of MITRE's work program in cyber assurance and law enforcement, he set technical direction and guided program execution in the early research, development, and analysis of threat and vulnerability assessment of critical infrastructure against cyber intrusions.

During the millennium roll-over, Mr. Gagnon led a team of top experts from 24 private sector companies in support of the Cyber Assurance National Information Center (NIC) for the Y2K Information Coordination Center. The Cyber Assurance NIC provided the federal government with computer intrusion and malicious code release information from the private sector. Concurrent with this role, he worked with the National Infrastructure Protection Center on strategies for protecting the nation against a cyber attack.

Since 1998, Mr. Gagnon has helped pioneer investigative approaches to emerging cyber threats. Notably, he worked with a team that formulated the technology to investigate the earliest large-scale denial of service attack in early 2000—an attack that exposed widespread Internet vulnerabilities.

Mr. Gagnon, who joined MITRE in 1986, has held several leadership positions where he concentrated on solving information security issues for a variety of Department of Defense (DoD) organizations, including the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and the National Security Agency (NSA). As part of this work, he investigated technologies such as intrusion detection systems, firewall technology, computer forensics, and virtual private networks, as well as "NSA-Grade" quality security countermeasures.

Mr. Gagnon has also led MITRE's efforts to help set—and communicate—software industry security data standards to fortify vendor products against vulnerabilities. The company's open source programs, including Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®); Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®); Common Platform Enumeration (CPE™); and Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE™), assist government sponsors and customers, as well as private industry, to develop protections for data and information.

Before joining MITRE, Mr. Gagnon worked for Harris Corporation on a variety of software development projects for the DoD. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Fitchburg State College.

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