menu Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Strategic Objective 5.5. of the recently released National Cybersecurity Strategy states that global interconnected supply chains produce the information, communications, and operational technology products and services that power the U.S. economy, many of which are reliant upon a growing network of foreign suppliers.  This dependency on critical foreign products and services from untrusted suppliers introduces multiple sources of systemic risk to our digital ecosystem; mitigating this risk will require long-term, strategic collaboration between public and private sectors at home and abroad to rebalance global supply chains and make them more transparent, secure, and resilient, and trustworthy.  This panel will discuss the various sources and types of risk posed to our cyber supply chains and traditional and non-traditional methods policymakers should deploy to mitigate such risks.  

Camille Stewart Gloster, Esq. the Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology & Ecosystem for The White House. In her role, Camille leads technology, supply chain, data security, and cyber workforce and education efforts for the Office of the National Cyber Director.  Camille is a cyber, technology, and national security strategist and policy leader whose career has spanned the private, public, and non-profit sectors. She joined ONCD from Google, where she most recently served as Global Head of Product Security Strategy, and before that as Head of Security Policy and Election Integrity for Google Play and Android. 

Prior to working at Google, Camille led cyber diplomacy, technology policy, privacy, and technical policy areas like encryption and PNT as the Senior Policy Advisor for Cyber, Infrastructure & Resilience at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  During her time at DHS, Camille led campaigns, international engagements, and policy development that bolstered national and international cyber resilience. Those policies include Presidential Policy Directive 41 (PPD – 41) on federal cyber incident coordination, supporting Privacy Shield negotiations, and the 2016 Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) which outlined 75 tasks to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections, protect privacy, maintain public safety as well as economic and national security. Camille has also held leadership roles focused on cyber and technology on Capitol Hill, at Deloitte, and Cyveillance, an open-source threat intelligence company.

Throughout her career, Camille has held cybersecurity fellowships at the Harvard Belfer Center, New America, Atlantic Council, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Camille also served on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security during the 2021-2022 Bar Year and the Criminal Divisions Cybersecurity Committee during the 2020-2021 Bar Year.

Camille has contributed to advancing the field through technical research and writing, including a groundbreaking paper, and subsequent training for federal judges, on the exfiltration of national security-related technology and intellectual property through the courts. Most recently, she authored a paper on the need for and principles to support designing user-centric security programs.

Camille is passionate about expanding the cyber, technology, and national security workforces and co-founded the #ShareTheMicInCyber movement and the NextGen NatSec initiative to support investment in a highly skilled and diverse workforce. Both efforts serve to highlight the need for increased diversity in the cyber and national security fields respectively. Camille is also the co-founder of the Silicon Valley Chapter of Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS).

Camille’s professional achievements have earned her recognition from a multitude of entities throughout her career including her being selected as a 2021 SANS Difference Maker Honoree, 2021 Root100 Honoree, 2021 Microsoft Security Changemaker of the Year, and a 2021 CyberScoop50 Cyber Industry Leadership Honoree.

Camille holds a B.S. from Miami University, a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, and a CISO certificate from Carnegie Mellon University. Camille is CISSP and PMP certified.

Dr. Edlyn V. Levine is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of America’s Frontier Fund. She is responsible for leading all of the organization’s scientific and technical-focused efforts to accelerate advanced technologies critical to U.S. leadership.

Edlyn was formerly Chief Technologist for the MITRE Corporation’s Acceleration Office. At MITRE, Edlyn built and led a portfolio of pioneering research, programs, and consortia to drive foundational technology advancements in semiconductors, 5G telecommunications, quantum information science, remote sensing, ionospheric plasma modification, and nuclear effects. Edlyn founded and led MITRE Engenuity’s semiconductor industry effort and architected MITRE’s November 2021 semiconductor strategy, “American Innovation, American Growth: A Vision for the National Semiconductor Technology Center.” Edlyn also established MITRE's 5G consortium and a national labs consortium to study the impact of high altitude nuclear detonations. Her research has led to technology transfer to the U.S. government and multiple peer-reviewed publications and patents.

Edlyn also serves as a faculty member for the executive education program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she teaches on hardware and supply chain security, artificial intelligence, and the intersection of technology and national security. Edlyn has served as a special government employee for the Defense Science Board and is a research associate in the Department of Physics at Harvard University and a visiting research scientist at the University of Maryland.

Edlyn’s scientific accomplishments have been recognized externally by the AFCEA 40 under 40 Award, the National Defense Science and Engineering Research Fellowship, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Edlyn received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University and her B.S. in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh.

Valerie M. Cofield serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Ms. Cofield serves as the principal policy and strategic adviser to CISA leadership and senior management, integrating strategy across all the organization’s mission areas and ensuring policy, strategy, and operational consistency throughout the agency.

Prior to CISA, Ms. Cofield served at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 22 years in a variety of roles. She was a Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) for the Cyber Capabilities Branch within the FBI’s Cyber Division where she led coordination and deployment of the division’s technical tools and capabilities, and oversaw cyber-related training, recruiting, hiring, and budgeting for the division. She also served in a senior executive role as chief of staff of the Science and Technology Branch and as a DAD of the Digital Transformation Office (DTO), where she engaged with interagency partners and other key stakeholders on policy issues related to current and emerging technologies and their impact on law enforcement.

In 2019, Ms. Cofield was selected as the FBI’s senior detail to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. This Congressional Commission was authorized through the FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Its mission was to develop a national strategy for preventing cyberattacks of significant consequences. While on the Commission, Ms. Cofield was a Senior Director and Task Force Lead. The Commission completed its report in March of 2020 with over 75 recommendations, 25 of which were included in the FY21 NDAA and enacted into law.