Christopher Todd Doss

Todd’s professional experience includes:

• Assisting organizations to understand how effective their cybersecurity programs are relative to their risk profile, the context of their cybersecurity program imperatives, and how to target and achieve the maturity level to which they aspire. Provide cybersecurity services that help clients develop right-sized maturity targets, create practical strategies to meet those targets, and develop and implement the policies, procedures, and controls as the essential building blocks.
• Leading over 1,500 cyber incident response and investigations into a wide array of active and emergent cyber security threats. Todd’s experience enables him to provide cybersecurity risk management leadership in the development of security policy and IT project management and implementation. Holds years of experience with ISO and NIST guidelines and compliance while serving as a consultant and as the Director of the FBI Laboratory.
• As Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory, he directed large, complex programs with more than 40 management staff members, 1,100 special agents and professional personnel, and a more than $100 million budget to provide global, strategic, operational, investigative, and infrastructure support to the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement community.
• Established the sole government facility dedicated to researching, manufacturing, testing, and characterizing homemade explosives and devices. The facility analyzes immediate and on-the-horizon threats by testing their properties, and then generates authoritative information to detect and prevent their use by terrorists. The facility works with Transportation Security Administration to improve airport screening tools.
• Partnered with government agencies, industry, and Congress to develop a rapid DNA (hands-free) capability to develop a profile from an arrestee in less than two hours. Created the implementation plan to link these instruments to allow searching of the Combined DNA Index System from authorized booking stations throughout the U.S.
• Established the sole government facility dedicated to researching intelligence data sets contained in multiple, disparate systems. Leveraged an agile development approach and strategy to successfully achieve customer buy-in and participation with the system. DIVS is now the primary data search tool used by the FBI.
• Designed and implemented the FBI’s Data Integration and Visualization System, which, for the first time in the FBI’s history, provided a single sign-on search capability across more than 100 intelligence data sets contained in multiple, disparate systems. Leveraged an agile development approach and strategy to successfully achieve customer buy-in and participation with the system. DIVS is now the primary data search tool used by the FBI.
• Successfully transitioned the nation’s largest forensic laboratory from a paper-based evidence and case management process to an electronic system designed to record forensic analysis throughout the examination life cycle. The effort was phased into operation over a four-year period and resulted in a significant reduction to the administrative workload of laboratory personnel.
• Led the consolidation of two major enterprise-wide data systems used to analyze National Security intelligence into one system, which resulted in the FBI saving approximately $10 million and minimizing the risk of overlooking key segments of intelligence.
• Led the investigation to identify any and all of the telephonic communications of the 9/11 Hijackers. Coordinated investigative efforts with major telecom companies to include AT&T, MCI, Sprint, U.S. West and Verizon to identify the calling patterns and call detail records for the cellular, hardline and satellite telephones, as well as the prepaid calling cards, utilized by the hijackers in an effort to identify other co-conspirators and/or contacts. During the investigation, records were identified within the telecom companies switches and routing networks that were helpful to the investigation. All findings were then shared with the NSA and CIA, as provided by law, to further ensure national security.
• Significantly enhanced the sharing of digital media with other USIC partners by implementing an automated process that met dozens of interagency legal and security requirements and expedited the sharing of intelligence.
• Deployed hundreds of investigative personnel to conduct extraterritorial and international investigations around the globe, often resolving complex logistical matters and diversity in operating environments that were encountered from country to country. Successfully conducted operations abroad while maintaining the safety and security of all investigative personnel (e.g., deployed personnel to a Ukrainian war zone to investigate the Malaysian airliner shot down by a missile).
• Selected twice by the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to serve as the federal coordinator for the Kentucky Derby; established a federal incident management, security, and response plan for coordinating communications among federal, state, and local first responders. Also led the FBI’s federal incident management and security assistance activities across the spectrum of prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.
• Led national forensic investigative efforts, deployed staff, and secured financial resources to support major FBI investigations (e.g., the Boston Marathon bombing, the Washington Navy Yard attack, Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting, San Bernardino attack, Mandalay Bay shooting in Las Vegas).
• Ran a program that managed more than 1,500 evidence response team members across the FBI.