Alma Cole, formerly vice president of Robbins Gioia‘s cybersecurity business, has rejoined the Customs and Border Protection as chief information security officer and executive director of the cybersecurity directorate at CBP, MeriTalk reported Wednesday.
Morgan Lynch writes Cole succeeded former CBP CISO Shaun Khalfan, who left the agency in January to serve as head of the information risk program at Freddie Mac.
Cole previously served as chief systems security officer of CBP from 2012 to 2013 and director of the Department of Homeland Security‘s Cyber Operations Center from 2007 to 2012.
Prior to DHS, he worked as an information technology security analyst at the National Information Assurance Training and Education Center and an IT analyst at the Government Accountability Office.
