Ron Fisher is a senior risk advisor for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He supports both the Science & Technology Directorate and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) supporting complex resilience and infrastructure challenges. This includes cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, supply chains, infrastructure dependencies and interdependencies, legislation and policy, metrics, and human/organization behavior.

Dr. Fisher provides over 30 years of critical infrastructure protection and resilience experience including serving on President Clinton’s Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. As part of the Presidential Commission, he was instrumental in initial cyber security work on energy supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

Dr. Fisher has worked at INL for ten years, and prior to that 26 years at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Fisher has over 300 classified publications and over 150 unclassified publications including contributions to multiple books, as well as a copyright and trademark in geospatial information technology. He currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Cyber Security.