Staff Stories Spotlight Series: Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024

This blog is part of a larger NIST series during the month of October for Cybersecurity Awareness Month , called 'Staff Stories Spotlight.' Throughout the month of October this year, Q&A style blogs will be published featuring some of our unique staff members who have interesting backgrounds, stories to tell, and projects in the world of cybersecurity. This year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme is ‘Secure our World.’ How does this theme resonate with you, as someone working in cybersecurity? Everyone has the power to protect information. Like safety – where everyone’s responsibility is to

Eduardo Takamura

Ed Takamura is a security researcher and a member of the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) Team at NIST. Prior to joining NIST, he served NASA and NOAA as (FISMA) Compliance Project Manager, ISSO, ISSE, Control Assessor, System Administrator, and other supervisory and non-supervisory IT-related roles.

While the highlight of his 25+ year professional career in support of the federal government was his service as ISSO for a NASA mission to Mars, the opportunity to serve security professionals and their supporting contractors across the federal government to help them manage risks is what brings him most professional joy and fulfillment.

Ed holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University, a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Bowie State University (Cum Laude) and is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP #323245).

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