Primary Job Title Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer Primary Organization Northrop Grumman
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
Phyllis Schneck is the Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity & Communications with the Department of Homeland Security, where she is also the chief cybersecurity official.
Previously held positions include Chief Technology Officer for Global Public Sector, McAfee, Inc.; VP of Enterprise Services, eCommSecurity; and VP of Corporate
Strategy for SecureWorks, Inc.
Schneck earned her Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech and pioneered the field of info security and security-based high-performance computing at Georgia Tech.
She holds seven information security patents and has six research publications in the areas of info security, real-time systems, telecom and software engineering.


