Rhea Siers

About

Rhea Siers is a senior advisor on cybersecurity risk and policy issues at Teneo Risk Advisory, where she counsels C-suite executives on cyber issues. She spent three decades at the National Security Agency (1981-2012), serving as an attorney and counsel in its Office of General Counsel, Deputy Associate Director for Policy and Strategic Communications, and NSA's senior representative to the FBI. She later led cyber security defense strategy at Bank of America and was senior counsel in the cybersecurity practice at Zeichner, Ellman and Krause. Siers is adjunct faculty at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and at Johns Hopkins University, was Scholar in Residence at GW's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, and co-authored Cyberwarfare: Understanding the Law, Policy and Technology. At Legal Cyber Academy, Rhea Siers teaches on the current state of cyber threats and whether organizations should run tabletop exercises.