Melissa Hathaway, President, Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC
October 27, 2011, Holiday Inn – The University of Memphis, 6 pm
“Cybersecurity: A National Imperative”
Melissa Hathaway is currently President of Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC. She has served as a strategic advisor to a number of companies, including, Cisco Systems Inc., ManTech International Corporation, Guidance Software Inc., and Core Security Technologies. In the government sector, Ms. Hathaway provides strategic advice to the U.S. Government and Interpol, as well as numerous governments around the world as they develop and refine their national strategies for cybersecurity. At Harvard, Ms. Hathaway is participating and contributing to the joint MIT-Harvard Project Minerva. From February 2009 to August 2009, Ms. Hathaway served in the Obama administration as Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace in the National Security Council. During the last two years of the administration of George W. Bush, Ms. Hathaway served as Cyber Coordination Executive and Director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task force in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence where she led the development of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.