Debora Plunkett

Debora Plunkett

Board Member at Nationwide
Company Tenure: 4 years
Education:
Towson University (B.S.) National War College (M.S.) Johns Hopkins University (M.B.A.)
Biography:

Debora Plunkett joined the Board of Directors at Nationwide in 2019. Ms. Plunkett has also served on the Board of Directors at Mercury Systems since 2021, BlueVoyant since 2020, CACI International since 2018, and previously at JCPenney from 2017 to 2020. Ms. Plunkett has served as Principal at Plunkett Associates since 2016. Ms. Plunkett served in several positions within the National Security Agency, including Deputy Director and Director of the National Security Agency’s Information Assurance Directorate from 1984 to 2016. Ms. Plunkett served as the Director of Cyber security at the officer of Transnational Threats withing The White House National Security Council from 2000 to 2001. Ms. Plunkett has served on the board at the Townson University Foundation since 2023, Chair of the Board at Defending Digital Campaigns from 2019, to 2022 and continues to serve on the board and has been a Professor of Cybersecurity at the university of Maryland’s Global Campus since 2015. From 2019 to 2022, Ms. Plunkett served on the New York State Cyber Security Advisory Board and the Townson University Advisory from 2018 to 2022.

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Nationwide

Key Statements

"I had recently retired from Federal Service after 31 years at NSA, and I got a phone call from a former colleague in government who had just taken over the role as co director of the Belfort Center at Harvard, dr. Eric Rosenbach. And Eric called to say, given what had just happened in the previous six months during the general election in 2016, they were considering standing up an effort to focus on election security. And he asked me if I was interested, and I was like, all the way in? Yes. And so I joined this phenomenal team of a diverse team of folks with specialties, certainly in cybersecurity. But we had political experts, we had communications experts, and the task before us, given the disruption that occurred in 2016, was to find an opportunity to instill some new culture into a community that really had not before thought much about security."<br />

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