Rob Knake is a cybersecurity consultant in private practice and an advisor to ActZero and SecurityScorecard. He served in the Biden Administration as the first Deputy National Cyber Director for Strategy and Budget in the Office of the National Cyber Director and led the development of the National Cybersecurity Strategy. Knake also served at the White House from 2011 to 2015 as director for cybersecurity policy at the National Security Council. In this role, he was responsible for the development of presidential policy on cybersecurity, and built and managed federal processes for cyber incident response and vulnerability management.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy
Department of Defense

Senior Manager for Cybersecurity Policy
Microsoft

Cyber Policy Officer
European External Action Service (EEAS)

Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Cyber and Digital, Cyber Coordinator
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, New Zealand

Senior Cybersecurity Strategist
Microsoft