Philip Stupak is a political appointee in the Biden Administration where he serves as the Director for Federal Cybersecurity in the Office of the National Cyber Director at the Executive Office of the President. He has coordination responsibilities for protecting federal civilian executive branch systems. This includes implementing zero trust architecture, phishing resistant multifactor authentication, logging requirements, and encryption of data in transit and at rest.

Mr. Stupak initially joined the Biden Administration at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where he was dual-hatted as a counselor to the Deputy Secretary and a Senior Advisor to the Chief Information Officer. In those roles, he led an interagency working group responsible for the technology enabling Afghan refugee resettlement, directed a new model of operational coordination, and began a reformation of the Department’s R&D activities.

Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Mr. Stupak was an Associate Director at the University of Chicago’s Harris Cyber Policy Initiative where he focused on disinformation campaigns, election security, and AI policy while teaching cyber risk management within the University of Chicago’s Treat Response Management graduate program. Mr. Stupak previous served in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and as an election counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration. He began his legal career with the Board of Elections at the City of New York.

Mr. Stupak has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and a JD from the University of Richmond.