CISO Spotlight: LaLisha Hurt – Deputy CISO, GDIT

Passion for growing cyber talent, risk-based transformative decision making and alignment to business outcomes as well as customer mission are three traits successful Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) must possess. LaLisha Hurt embodies these traits and over the course of her varied career, she has held progressive roles as a regulatory examiner, auditor, consultant, IT risk leader and now Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). GDIT employs over 30K dedicated employees and provides strategy, technology and mission services to some of the most complex government, defense and intelligence initiatives across the country.