Susan Sheehan is the Deputy Chief of DIB Defense at NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center (CCC). She is responsible for hardening the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) by sharing NSA SIGINT-derived threat intelligence and providing no-cost cybersecurity services to defense contractors. Susan has nearly 15 years of experience in the public sector and has worked closely with the private industry in various roles while at the Agency.
Susan previously served as an NSA Special Agent for 14 years and most recently completed a tour as the Technical Director for the Industrial Security Division. In this role, she worked with NSA’s Industrial Partners to develop and maintain comprehensive, counterintelligence-driven, and cost-effective security programs to protect NSA equities entrusted to contracting companies worldwide. She is a recipient of the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation (NIMUC) for the successful delivery of Microsoft Azure cloud and Microsoft 365 services to the Intelligence Community’s top-secret network fabric through the complete build-out of an air-gapped, hyperscale cloud platform.
Susan graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland, College Park. Outside of the Agency, she is the President of a small minority woman-owned and certified business enterprise that specializes in subsurface imaging technology.