Mr. John Bryant serves as the Region 7 Acting Chief of Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Integrated Operations Division in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Region 7 is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and serves the states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. CISA is the Nation’s risk advisor, working with partners to defend against today’s digital and physical threats and collaborating to build more secure and resilient infrastructure
for the future. Mr. Bryant provides Cybersecurity resource briefings, Cybersecurity training, Cybersecurity assessments, and Incident Response planning to the nation’s sixteen critical infrastructure sectors and state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities.

Before his tenure with CISA, Mr. Bryant working for the U.S. Army as the Army University Chief Information Officer (CIO) with the main campus at Ft. Leavenworth and five remote campuses. Prior to joining the U.S. Army, Mr. Bryant began his career in U.S. Naval Intelligence, where he served nine (9) years. Following his Naval Service, he held various IT positions in both the Private and Government sectors, which includes 9 years in Cybersecurity, 8 years in IT Management, and 8 years as CIO for three different organizations.

He holds a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Organizational Development and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Technology from Upper Iowa University. He is a member of (ISC)2 and is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) in good standing for the past 12 years.