Scott Dunford
Senior Security Specialist
About Speaker
Scott J. Dunford is a seasoned security specialist with over 37 years of experience and serves as the senior security specialist for the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) within the Infrastructure Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Dunford leads the policies, standards and recommendations line of effort, which is foundational to the work of the ISC and provides a collaborative roadmap to protect federal facilities and those that work and visit them.
Before joining CISA, Dunford was chief of the Field Security Operations Branch for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. As chief, he led a team of multidisciplined security professionals in implementing physical, administrative and operations security and identity management programs for the agency. He also served in the DHS Physical Security Division, performing security compliance reviews of DHS operational components and playing an instrumental role in developing the nationally recognized ISC Risk Management Process training course. Additionally, Dunford served 25 years in the United States Air Force.