Zachary Tudor

Zachary Tudor is the associate laboratory director of Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) National and Homeland Security Science and Technology directorate, a major U.S. center for national security technology development and demonstration. 

INL employs about 800 scientists and engineers across more than $550 million in programs for the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the intelligence community. 

He is responsible for INL’s Nuclear Nonproliferation, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Defense Systems missions.

Previously, Tudor served as a program director in SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory, where he supported cybersecurity and critical infrastructure programs, such as DHS Cyber Security Division’s Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cybersecurity consortium and the Industrial Control System Joint Working Group R&D working group.

He is the former board of directors chair of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2). He is a professor of practice in the computer science departments of the University of Idaho and Idaho State University. 

Tudor, a retired U.S. Navy submarine electronics limited duty officer and chief data systems technician, holds an M.S. in information systems with a concentration in cybersecurity, from George Mason University. At Mason, he was also an adjunct professor teaching graduate courses in information security.