Jerry Cochran serves as Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Cyber Security Division Director responsible for cyber security operations and is also currently acting Group Leader for the cyber security research group in the National Security Directorate. Jerry’s management, technical and operational experiences span both government and private sector over his 30+ year technology and 20+ year cyber security career, working in startups and for industry leaders like Compaq/HP, Microsoft and the U.S. DoD. His multi-disciplinary expertise in network and systems engineering, software engineering, security architecture, compliance, strategy, security operations and military cyber operations, are directly relevant and impactful to PNNL’s cyber research, operations and mission focus areas.