Christopher Cruz, M.S.

Adjunct Faculty
Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

EXPERTISE

• Cybersecurity planning and policy

• Public interest cybersecurity

• Intelligence analysis

• Insider threat investigations and analytics

EDUCATION

B.S. Criminal Justice, Virginia Commonwealth University

Post-Bacc, Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University

M.S. International Relations, Troy University

BIOGRAPHY

Christopher Cruz is the Cyber Program Manager for the Virginia Fusion Center, which provides a vital conduit for intelligence collection and information exchange throughout the Commonwealth. He is responsible for the development, management, and integration of cybersecurity capabilities within the fusion center and in service the Commonwealth’s broader homeland security mission. Christopher was also previously the Cybersecurity Program Manager for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, where he was assigned to work in the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security. He has additionally spent several years in the private sector working for multiple Fortune 500 companies leading global security efforts around insider threat, data protection, IP theft investigations, and IT risk management.