Ms. Stanar-Johnson is Deputy Special Assistant to the Director NSA/CSS for Cyber, a position she has held since May 2007. Prior to engaging in the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, she served on the Director's Technical Architecture Governance Team which resulted in the establishment of both the new Chief Technology Officer and Technology Directorateat NSA. Ms. Stanar-Johnson graduated from Ohio University in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, specializing in Middle East studies. She received a Master's Degree in 1985 in Islamic History with a minor in Arabic and Turkish from Ohio State University that included a Fulbright-Hayes scholarship to Princeton and another to Bosagi University in Istanbul. At NSA, she has developed and taught courses on the Middle East/North Africa and on Intelligence Support to Law Enforcement. Hired in 1986 as a linguist/analyst, Ms. Stanar-Johnson began developing customer relationships to increase actionable intelligence. She served as Executive Assistant to Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Ms. Stanar-Johnson served as the first NSA Representative to the FBI, working from New York's National Security Division, for which she received the Civilian Meritorious Service Medal in 1999. She returned from the field to develop and lead the Customer Gateway, an organization providing a focal point for SIGANT requirements, products and services. For her support to customers and warfighters during Operation Iraqi Freedom, she received the Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2004. She also served as an Issue Manager for Latin America/International Crime and Narcotics. Ms. Stanar-Johnson began her career in 1977 as a foreign correspondent in Cairo, Egypt, where she reported on Anwar Sadat's historic mission to Jerusalem, the resultant Palestinian rioting, and eventually Sadat's assassination. Covering the Iranian hostage crisis from the U.S. was her final journalistic assignment before returning to graduate school where she studied, lectured, and wrote about the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism. Ms. Stanar-Johnson is the wife of Father Duane Johnson, an Eastern Orthodox Priest who serves at the Orthodox Church of St. Matthew inColumbia, MD. They have two children. She and her husband write and speak extensively on suffering and recovering from grief as a result of the death their six year old son, Andrew, in a car accident in 1993.

Ms. Stanar-Johnson will discuss THE UNITED STATES COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY INITIATIVE. The National Security Agency (NSA), as one of 22 Federal departments and agencies that developed the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, will present an unclassified briefing on the initiative to include its purpose, goals, and strategic focus areas.