MARYLAND CYBERSECURITY COORDINATING COUNCIL

Ex officio: Maj. Gen. Janeen L. Birckhead, Adjutant General; Travis A. Nelson, Director, Governor's Office of Homeland Security; Carmel Roques, Secretary of Aging; Kevin M. Atticks, Secretary of Agriculture; Yaakov (Jake) Weissmann, Acting Secretary of Budget & Management; Harry Coker, Jr., Secretary of Commerce; Carol A. Beatty, Secretary of Disabilities; Russell J. Strickland, Secretary of Emergency Management; Serena C. McIlwain, Secretary of the Environment; Atif T. Chaudhry, Secretary of General Services; Meena Seshamani, M.D., Ph.D., Secretary of Health; Jacob R. Day, Secretary of Housing & Community Development; Rafael J. Lopez, Secretary of Human Services; Katie Olson Savage, Secretary of Information Technology; Betsy Fox Tolentino, Esq., Acting Secretary of Juvenile Services; Portia Y. Wu, Esq., Secretary of Labor; Joshua E. Kurtz, Secretary of Natural Resources; Rebecca L. Flora, Secretary of Planning; Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary of Public Safety & Correctional Services; Jonathan M. (Jonny) Dorsey, Acting Secretary of Service & Civic Innovation; Col. Michael A. Jackson, Acting Secretary of State Police; Samantha J. Biddle, Acting Secretary of Transportation; Edward C. Rothstein, Acting Secretary of Veterans & Military Families; Jay A. Perman, M.D., Chancellor, University System of Maryland; Victoria L. Gruber, Esq., Executive Director, Department of Legislative Services.

Representing Administrative Office of the Courts: Robert J. Bruchalski

Nonvoting members:
Appointed by Senate President: Bill Ferguson
Appointed by House Speaker: Nicholaus R. Kipke
Appointed by Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland: Fred S. Hecker

100 Community Place, Crownsville, Maryland, July 2016. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Meeting quarterly, the Council advises and makes recommendations to the State Chief Information Security Officer on strategy and implementation of cybersecurity initiatives and recommendations. Further, it provides advice and recommendations for building and sustaining the State's capability to identify, mitigate, and detect cybersecurity risk, as well as how to respond to and recover from cybersecurity-related incidents.

Twenty-nine members constitute the Council. Of these, twenty-five serve ex officio; one represents the Administrative Office of the Courts; and three are nonvoting members. The State Chief Information Security Officer, who heads the Office of Security Management within the Department of Information Technology, chairs the Council (Code State Finance & Procurement Article, secs. 3.5-2A-05, 3.5-2A-06).

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