Summer Fowler

Summer Fowler is the Technical Director for CERT's Cybersecurity Risk and Resilience Directorate with teams focused on challenges in operational risk management, insider threat, and technical assessments. Summer is responsible for executing the strategic plan for a research portfolio focused on improving the security and resilience of organizational assets, including people, information, technology, facilities, and infrastructures. She is also the Technical Sponsor of the joint CERT/Heinz College CISO Executive Certificate Program. Prior to joining CERT in 2007, Summer was a Technical Member of the staff at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and a software engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation working on tactical ground systems.