Terry Burruss

As a retired cybersecurity specialist at the U.S. Federal Government Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Terry Burruss provides direction for all content for Billington CyberSecurity. His 30+ years of experience includes working as a Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) officer in CIA’s Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) and as Deputy Chief of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, which is responsible for intelligence collection, analysis, and operations focused on foreign cyber threats to US interests. In these roles, Burruss worked closely with the DCIA, White House, Congress, and senior DOD, FBI, DHS and Foreign officials. Much of Burruss’ focus at CIA was to move his organization to embrace strategic change and take advantage of future technological shifts such as the emergence of SG and next generational cloud technologies. Throughout most of his intelligence career, Burruss focused largely on challenging national security technical issues and emerging threats with a heavy foc