Anne Townsend

Anne Townsend is a Cybersecurity Engineer and Department Manager at the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (NCF), operated by the MITRE Corporation. In her role, she is responsible for providing leadership to the organization in the area of data security. Townsend joined MITRE in 2004. During the course of her employment, she has supported projects focused on cybersecurity challenges such as network perimeter defense, data security, and Internet of Things (IoT). She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in computer and information sciences from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in computer science with a concentration in information security from Boston University.