Cyber Leaders on CDM

Kevin Cox is the Program Manager for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program, within the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. In this position, Mr. Cox leads the effort working collaboratively with federal agencies and industry to deploy cybersecurity solutions to 1) identify agency networks and assets and 2) protect them and agency data in near real-time against the growing cybersecurity threats. Prior to joining DHS, Mr. Cox served as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Department of Justice, where he oversaw the organization's cybersecurity continuous monitoring capabilities and the security posture dashboard. Mr. Cox holds M.A. degrees from West Virginia University and the University of Chicago.

Willie Crenshaw, Jr is a Cyber Security Program Executive for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). For the past six years, Mr. Crenshaw has led NASA’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation DEFEND Program (CDM). With over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology and Cyber Security field, Mr. Crenshaw has extensive experience in both private and federal government sectors.

Mr. Crenshaw has managed and implemented large networks and programs for various federal agencies such as the Department of Transportation, Department of Education and the Pentagon. Additionally he has also worked on high profile initiatives such as the F18 Super Hornet testing program at Patuxent River, MD and Single Agency Manager (SAM) at the Pentagon.

Prior to joining NASA, Mr. Crenshaw spent 10 years with the Department of Transportation (FRA) as the Information System Security Manager.

Crenshaw has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary and an associate degree in Business Administration and Management from Virginia State University and associate degree in Computer Technology from ECPI University.

Crenshaw also has earned numerous certifications from Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and ISC2 for Cybersecurity.

Ben Liberty is the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program Manager for the Department of the Interior (DOI). In this position, Mr. Liberty supports DOI's Executive leadership and Bureaus and Offices to implement CDM as an Enterprise Program throughout the Department. Prior to joining DOI as a Federal employee, Mr. Liberty was a contractor who supported the Department's efforts as an early adopter of the CDM Program since 2013.

Greg Amori is a sales leader with over 20+ years in IT/Cybersecurity focusing on both Federal, Commercial, and International markets. He previously held leadership and individual contributor roles at IBM, BigFix, and Symantec. For the past 3+ years he has been at Forescout where he leads the Civilian and Mid-Atlantic Commercial Sales Teams. He has been part of the CDM program since its early inception from State Dept. He is passionate about solving customer problems and delivering successful solutions to complex issues. Greg lives in Arlington, VA with his wife and 3 daughters.

Dennis Reilly has been Vice President of Federal at Gigamon for nearly seven years, leading the group to 28% compounded annual growth and a 61% market share in the network visibility space. With over 25 years of technology and business experience, Mr. Reilly is a strong advocate for the Federal government, applying information technology to strengthen security and improve innovation and productivity.

Prior to joining Gigamon, Dennis held sales leadership positions at companies such as Oracle, Netscape, BEA, and Plumtree Software. Earlier in his career, Mr. Reilly served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and earned his Bachelor’s degree at the United States Naval Academy. He also earned his graduate degree in business from Boston University.

Dennis resides in northern Virginia with his wife and has four adult children.

Tom Welsh is Director of Systems Engineering with the FireEye public sector team, where he leads an engineering practice focused on reducing the security risk to the missions of civilian departments/agencies. Working closely with Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) primes, Tom advises departments and agencies across all aspects of the program to best meet agency readiness and agency specific needs. Additionally, Tom is a champion of federal requirements to the FireEye executive leadership team, and e he played a leading role in the launch and FedRAMP authorization of FireEye government cloud services.

Welsh’s career supporting the federal government spans over 20 years. Prior to FireEye, Tom held a variety of leadership roles within the service provider community, including leading a federal systems engineering team for a cloud service provider, and a systems engineering team supporting the Department of Homeland Security for a managed services/internet service provider.

JJ Green is the National Security Correspondent at WTOP radio. He reports daily on international security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments and provides regular on-air analysis.

He joined WTOP on March 11, 2004. In the years since then, he has traveled to dozens of countries investigating, reporting and analyzing the U.S. war against terrorism and has interviewed the leadership of all the key national security components of the U.S. government and many security and foreign government officials around the world.

He hosts the weekly podcast, Target USA, which examines the threats facing U.S. He also hosts the weekly broadcast program “The Hunt,” and conducts in-depth interviews with experts on ISIS, al-Qaida, the Taliban and other emerging terror threats.

He’s been embedded with the U.S. military three times in war zones. He has reported from Kandahar, Zabul province and Kabul in Afghanistan. While embedded with the U.S. Air Force in 2006, he traveled 18,000 miles, to 10 countries, including Iraq, Djibouti, Afghanistan, Qatar, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and others in 31 days, covering the war effort.

He has traveled to Israel, the Golan Heights, Israel’s borders with Syria and Lebanon, and Gaza. He interviewed Israeli and Palestinian political officials about the conflict there and the prospects for peace, and the roadblocks. Since 2013 he has spent a lot of time in North Africa, covering the rise and fall of ISIS and the flow of foreign fighters.

He is the recipient of the 2017 Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense for his series Anatomy of a Russian attack. He has also received a National Edward R. Murrow Award (2009) for “Hidden Hunter” — his reporting aboard a nuclear-powered, Los Angeles Class submarine underway in the Atlantic Ocean. He also won the prestigious Associated Press Douglas S. Freeman award in 2010 for his investigative series, “Dignity Denied,” which explored decades of neglect at America’s hallowed Arlington National Cemetery.

He has also won more than two dozen regional and local awards since he started working at WTOP. In 2012, he was honored by the University of Maryland, University College as their commencement speaker, in recognition of his broad body of national security reporting accomplishments. He has also been recognized by top national security officials for his deep knowledge of international affairs and ability to succinctly analyze complex issues.

In addition to his work at WTOP, JJ lectures regularly at universities and colleges on national security issues and speaks often to U.S. government, military and national security organizations. He is also a contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review magazine.

Before joining team WTOP, he traveled to and reported on the events, issues, people and places of Africa, Latin America and Europe for the six years on public and international television. He began his career in Washington in 1989 at WMAL radio. In the mid-1990s he was trained as a TV correspondent at ABC News’ “Nightline.” Later he worked as a general assignment part-time correspondent at CNN. In the late 90s he was brought on at CSPAN as weekend host of the Washington Journal. In 1998, JJ began working as a correspondent for the Voice of America Television on Window on America and as host and correspondent of Africa Journal while traveling there frequently until he joined WTOP in 2004.

JJ graduated magna cum laude from Hampton University. He’s fluent in Spanish, speaks working level French and is studying Korean. An avid athlete, he is an accomplished speed skater, a regular runner, and swimmer, cross trainer and is an expert kickboxer.

You can email J.J. at jgreen@wtop.com or follow him on Twitter.