Alicia Smith brings more than a decade of experience in legislative, regulatory, and policy matters related to cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, and emerging technologies. She spent eight years as Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, where she covered cybersecurity and infrastructure protection issues including cyber incident response and reporting requirements, threat intelligence sharing, industrial and operational technology cybersecurity, federal network security, and public-private partnerships to strengthen cross-sector resilience.
During her tenure on the Committee, Alicia worked on multiple high-profile cyber incident investigations, coordinated dozens of congressional hearings, and drafted, advanced, and oversaw implementation of major federal legislation, including the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, and the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015.
Most recently, Alicia served as Senior Policy Counsel at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where she led regulatory policy development and supported implementation of CIRCIA and other regulatory initiatives, including CISA's Security Requirements for Restricted Transactions under Executive Order 14117 on safeguarding Americans' bulk sensitive personal data and U.S. government-related data from countries of concern. In this role, Alicia acted as a key liaison among CISA, the White House, and interagency partners to help develop national-level security and resilience policy.
B.A., History and Political Science, Samford University