Ginger Wright

Chief Technology Officer for the Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Division

Idaho National Laboratory

Virginia “Ginger” Wright is the Chief Technology Officer for the Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Division and the program manager for Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). She leads INL’s implementation of the National Strategy for Cyber-Informed Engineering developed by the Department of Energy. Cyber-Informed Engineering was the 2026 winner of the Research Impact Cyber Policy Award from the Institute for Security and Technology. Ms. Wright has led multiple cyber research programs at INL including DOE-CESER’s Cyber Testing for Resilient Industrial Control Systems (CyTRICS™) program, Software Bills of Material for the Energy Sector, critical infrastructure modeling and simulation, and nuclear cybersecurity. Ms. Wright has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems/Operations Management from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an appointed fellow of the Control System Cyber Security Association International.