September 10th, 2026: WACC National Security Series with Chris Inglis, Former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency and the First National Cyber Director
Chris Inglis served as Deputy Director of the National Security Agency under both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, spending decades across the NSA and Department of Defense before becoming the nation's first-ever National Cyber Director, a role created by Congress in 2021 to unify a fragmented federal cyber defense landscape. During his tenure, Inglis built an entirely new federal office from the ground up, helped launch the Counter Ransomware Initiative to coordinate a global response to ransomware attacks, and helped lay the foundation for the first National Cyber Strategy in five years. He took office just one month after the Colonial Pipeline attack that crippled fuel supplies along the East Coast and less than a year before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
