Full Name
Andrew Seiffert
Job Title
Senior Counselor for Infrastructure Security
Company
CISA
Speaking At
Speaker Bio
Mr. Andrew Seiffert was appointed to serve within the Biden-Harris Administration at the Department of Homeland Security as the Senior Counselor for Infrastructure Security in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). As Senior Counselor, he helps lead CISA’s efforts to secure the nation’s critical infrastructure from all threats and hazards in coordination with government and the private sector. Mr. Seiffert’s portfolio includes policy formulation, agency representation to the National Security Council (NSC) and
Congress, and managing programs related to prevention and protection against terrorism and targeted violence, high-risk facility security, regulatory administration, risk assessment and mitigation, and security and resilience planning for current and emergent risks to infrastructure, including nation state threats, infrastructure development, and climate change. He also leads CISA’s strategic Resilience Campaign.
Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, Mr. Seiffert was principal at Byrne Strategy LLC, a security and risk management consulting firm, for more than a decade focused on technical and management-related client engagement across the homeland security, infrastructure security, law enforcement, counterterrorism, intelligence, and weapons of mass destruction domains. In his private sector capacity, Mr. Seiffert served as a strategic advisor to the Director and Deputy Director of CISA as the agency was established by
Congress and at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Critical Incident Response Group.
Mr. Seiffert previously served in government during the Obama-Biden Administration at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where he focused on a strategic review of national preparedness ten years after 9/11 as lead staffer and later Executive Director of the Local, State, Tribal, and Federal Preparedness Task Force established by Congress. While at FEMA, he supported development of current U.S. policies for national preparedness, emergency management, and critical infrastructure security, and worked closely with the NSC to assess a series of terrorist threats to global aviation and develop the comprehensive national strategy adopted by President Obama in Presidential Policy Directive 17, Countering Improvised Explosive Devices.
Mr. Seiffert began his career at DFI International, a defense and homeland security consulting firm, where he supported client initiatives focused on intelligence and counterterrorism across the cyber-physical spectrum. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Haverford College with a focus on terrorism and the Middle East, where he studied in 2001 at the American University in Cairo.
Congress, and managing programs related to prevention and protection against terrorism and targeted violence, high-risk facility security, regulatory administration, risk assessment and mitigation, and security and resilience planning for current and emergent risks to infrastructure, including nation state threats, infrastructure development, and climate change. He also leads CISA’s strategic Resilience Campaign.
Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, Mr. Seiffert was principal at Byrne Strategy LLC, a security and risk management consulting firm, for more than a decade focused on technical and management-related client engagement across the homeland security, infrastructure security, law enforcement, counterterrorism, intelligence, and weapons of mass destruction domains. In his private sector capacity, Mr. Seiffert served as a strategic advisor to the Director and Deputy Director of CISA as the agency was established by
Congress and at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Critical Incident Response Group.
Mr. Seiffert previously served in government during the Obama-Biden Administration at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where he focused on a strategic review of national preparedness ten years after 9/11 as lead staffer and later Executive Director of the Local, State, Tribal, and Federal Preparedness Task Force established by Congress. While at FEMA, he supported development of current U.S. policies for national preparedness, emergency management, and critical infrastructure security, and worked closely with the NSC to assess a series of terrorist threats to global aviation and develop the comprehensive national strategy adopted by President Obama in Presidential Policy Directive 17, Countering Improvised Explosive Devices.
Mr. Seiffert began his career at DFI International, a defense and homeland security consulting firm, where he supported client initiatives focused on intelligence and counterterrorism across the cyber-physical spectrum. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Haverford College with a focus on terrorism and the Middle East, where he studied in 2001 at the American University in Cairo.
