Phyllis Lee

Vice President of Security Best Practices Content Development

Center for Internet Security

Phyllis Lee is the CIS Vice President of Security Best Practices Content Development. Prior to her current role at the Center for Internet Security®, she was the Senior Director of the CIS Critical Security Controls® (CIS Controls®). Ms. Lee has 25+ years of experience in information assurance, having performed vulnerability assessments, virtualization research, and work in security automation. Before joining CIS®, Ms. Lee worked at the National Security Agency (NSA) focusing on the intersection between malware and virtualization, which included collaboration with MIT Lincoln Labs. She also participated in a variety of security automation standardization efforts and led the security automation strategy for the NSA Information Assurance Directorate (IAD). Ms. Lee holds an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.