Michael Duffy, acting federal chief information security, spoke during a fireside chat at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington Sept. 9, 2025. He outlined his priorities for the CISO Council and previewed an upcoming tabletop exercise on readiness.
Michael Duffy is centering conversations with cyber leaders on enterprise cyber defense, increasing operational resilience, and securing a modern U.S. government.
"For the first time in history, the civilian government, we have a comprehensive inventory of our asymmetric cryptography across all the agencies and their critical systems," said…
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 21, 2022: Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) listens as Transportation Security Administrator David Pekoske speaks during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images).
Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., speaks during a House Oversight Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing at the U.S. Capitol on October 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images)
The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program director and federal chief information security officer intend to participate in the Zero Trust Working Group.