Chris Krebs is a Founding Partner of the Krebs Stamos Group, founded in 2020 alongside Alex Stamos. He is the Newmark Senior Fellow in Cybersecurity at the Aspen Institute where Chris is the Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity Working Group, and previously Co-Chaired the Aspen Commission on Information Disorder. Chris was the first director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), leading the nation’s civilian cyber defense and business resilience and risk management efforts. Prior to his recent government service, he led Microsoft’s U.S. cybersecurity policy efforts, also previously contributing to key national cyber initiatives including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Chris is a CBS News Contributing expert, a Resident Scholar with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Cybersecurity Project. He serves on the Advisory Boards of several companies including SentinelOne and Rubrik. Mr. Krebs holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.