Robert Montgomery

Cybersecurity State Coordinator, CISA

Mr. Montgomery currently serves as the Utah Cybersecurity Coordinator
(CSC) for CISA Region 8. In this capacity, he is tasked with presenting the
federal government’s catalog of cyber capabilities to State and local
governments, along with the 16 areas of critical infrastructure. He
promotes cyber preparedness and resiliency, incident response, risk
mitigation, and situational awareness through public and private sector
partnerships. Prior to CISA, Mr. Montgomery worked for Elastic as an
Education Engineer where he taught Incident Response and Cyber Threat
Hunting techniques to various agencies within the Department of
Defense. Mr. Montgomery recently retired as a Chief Warrant Officer
Three (CW3) Senior Information Technician from the National Guard
where he served for 27 years.