Caitlin Durkovich

Senior Director for Resilience and Response

National Security Council

Caitlin Durkovich currently serves as the senior director for resilience and response at the National Security Council. She was a nonresident senior fellow in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security until November 2020. While a fellow with the Atlantic Council, she co-directed the Future of DHS Project. After the election of President Joseph Biden, she served on the agency review team for the Department of Homeland Security.

She has more than twenty years of expertise in national and homeland security. A recognized expert in critical infrastructure security and resilience, including cybersecurity, Ms. Durkovich has successfully advanced risk management programs that drive thought leadership, advance leading security practices, influence policy, and evolve industry practices to manage operational and security risks. She has advanced strategy and policy at the highest levels of government, including the development of Presidential Policy Directive 21: Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (2013) and cochairing the Joint United States-Canada Electric Grid Security and Resilience Strategy (2016) and the National Space Weather Strategy (2015). 

Ms. Durkovich was a director at Toffler Associates, a foresight advisory firm. She served eight years at the Department of Homeland Security, managing the mission to protect the nation’s cyber and physical infrastructure. As assistant secretary for infrastructure protection, she led both the voluntary partnership to enhance security and resilience across the sixteen critical infrastructure sectors, as well as the regulatory program to secure high-risk chemical facilities, or the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Standards (CFATS).

Her experience also includes leading homeland security projects with several government agencies while at Booz Allen Hamilton, setting industry cybersecurity standards at the ISAlliance, and pioneering early warning cyber intelligence at iDefense (acquired by Verisign).

Ms. Durkovich served as a member of the Board of Directors of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and the Protect Our Power Advisory panel. She earned a B.A. in public policy studies from the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University and a certificate in business strategy from The Aspen Institute. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, three children, and bulldog.