Mr. Gilbert serves as a Cybersecurity Advisor (CSA) in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). He supports the CSA program and CISA’s mission through the goal of strengthening the security, reliability and resilience of the Nation's critical cyber infrastructure and serves in this role across the states of Virginia and West Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia.
As a CSA, Mr. Gilbert conducts various cyber preparedness, risk mitigation and cyber incident response coordination activities though public and private partnerships and outreach efforts in support of CISA’s mission. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Gilbert had served as a senior analyst with the CSA program’s headquarters where he led the development of various tools used by the CSA program to measure and strengthen the cybersecurity management capabilities of critical infrastructure organizations.
Mr. Gilbert has been with the Department for over 9 years and has over 14 years of experience in cybersecurity spanning the commercial, federal civilian, and DoD communities. He currently holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification, the Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification, the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification and a B.S. in Information Technology.