Kelly Rae Murray is the Executive Director and Co-Founder
for the Center for Cross-Sector Coordination (CXC), a not-for-profit initiative
focusing on promoting cross-sector collaboration and information sharing,
private-public discussion, and cross-sector security and resilience solutions
for critical infrastructure owners and operators. Additionally, Kelly is President and Founder
of Resilience and Risk Solutions and a Principal at Deep Water Point & Associates
where she provides expert strategic policy, legislative approach,
organizational development, risk analysis, vulnerability assessment, emergency
management, and program development for critical infrastructure and government
partners, driving impactful change and increased national and economic security
and resilience. Kelly is the former
Associate Director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA) Office of Chemical Security within the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS). In this role, she led efforts in identifying, regulating, and
managing infrastructure security risk by overseeing the former Chemical
Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulation as well as voluntary
critical infrastructure security and resilience programs and where she was a
co-implementer of the Global Congress on Chemical Security and Emerging
Threats, an international group of more than 1,000 experts from 80 countries,
established to build capacity worldwide, enable technology innovation, address
emerging threats like artificial intelligence and drones, and influence global
security strategies for critical infrastructure.