2016 Homeland Security Conference

Caitlin Durkovich
Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection
Department of Homeland Security


In May 2012, President Obama appointed Ms. Caitlin A. Durkovich Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection (IP). In her role, she leads the Department’s efforts to strengthen public-private partnerships and coordinate programs to protect the Nation’s critical infrastructure, assess and mitigate risk, build resilience, and strengthen incident response and recovery. Ms. Durkovich has advanced the mission to secure and ensure the resiliency of the Nation’s infrastructure through a number of milestones and accomplishments since her appointment. She helped lead the implementation of Executive Order (EO) 13636 Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)-21 Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, leveraging linkages between physical and cyber and focusing on the increasingly complex and interdependent nature of infrastructure. She directed the national effort to update and revise the National Infrastructure Protection Plan in 2013, focusing on the value of partnerships in building a unity of effort to achieve critical infrastructure security and resilience. In 2014, she helped usher through a multi-year reauthorization of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program stabilizing and solidifying the program which identifies and regulates high-risk chemical facilities. In addition to her role in advancing progress in CFATS, she also serves as a co-chair for the implementation of Executive Order 13650: Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security.

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