Andrew W. Cutts

Mr. Cutts joined the Department of Homeland Security in March 2008, working within the Office of Policy as Director for Cyber Security. 

Prior to joining DHS, he directed the Cyber Conflict Research Institute at Norwich University Applied Research Institutes. While there, he organized a national research consortium in the field of cyber conflict to perform related research for industry and government, developed Cabinet-level exercises for the Department of Homeland Security, and worked with crisis managers in the finance sector to develop a distributed, scenario-based, computer simulation of securities transactions.  While at Norwich University he consulted for the Japanese Cabinet Ministry on cyber threats.  He was also on the board of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, a non-profit entity dedicated to broadening national intellectual capacity in the field of cyber conflict. 

From 2002-2004 he was a research program manager at the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. 

He was in the private sector from 1995 to 2002, where he became Vice President for Information Technology at a high-tech engineering services firm based in Connecticut.  Before that, he served as a Naval Intelligence Officer for nine years.

Abstract of the Presentation:  Cyber Risk from a Homeland Security Perspective

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