Dr. Margaret Leary has more than 35 years’ experience consulting and working in the IT and Cyber fields, serving as a senior cybersecurity policy advisor to Federal agencies in the Washington, D.C. region, including performing various studies on e-Authentication, identity theft, and privacy. Dr. Margaret Leary is a Co-PI for National CyberWatch Center, and serves as the Director for an NSA Center of Academic Excellence National Resource Center, where she assists educational institutions find program development and mentoring resources as they pursue their CAE-CD and CAE2Y designation. She serves on a variety of cybersecurity education and industry working groups and served on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), Industrial Internet Subcommittee that was tasked to provide recommendations to the President of the United States on securing the Internet of Things (IoT). She is a past recipient of the prestigious State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Award (OFA). She holds multiple industry certifications, including CISSP, CRISC, CEH, and CIPP/G. Her research interests include cybersecurity, IoT, identity management, and privacy.