The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity is pleased to announce that Craig Jackson will be joining our team as Deputy Director, a key role supporting the strategic, intellectual, and operational leadership of CLTC’s cyber and AI security programs.
Jackson previously served as Executive Director at the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (IU CACR), which works to identify and address the most difficult cybersecurity problems facing critical infrastructure. His research interests include evidence-based approaches to security, cybersecurity fundamentals, and cybersecurity program development and governance.
“We are thrilled that Craig Jackson will be joining our team as Deputy Director — a pivotal role,” says Ann Cleaveland, Executive Director of CLTC. “Craig’s experience in leading cybersecurity research and assessments, and his expertise in protecting critical infrastructure, will be invaluable in helping expand the impact of our research and engagement.”
Jackson has led collaborative work with critical infrastructure and national security stakeholders, as well as interdisciplinary assessment and guidance teams for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. He was the principal architect of the Trusted CI Framework, a holistic and mission-focused standard for managing cybersecurity that has been widely adopted by NSF grantees.
He co-authored Security from First Principles: A Practical Guide to the Information Security Practice Principles, a book that introduces a framework designed to help cybersecurity professionals, managers and executives better understand security at a high level. He has also served as a temporary faculty at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, where he led R&D on cybersecurity assessment methodologies, including PACT (the Principle-Based Cybersecurity Assessment Toolkit).
Jackson is a graduate of the IU Maurer School of Law, IU School of Education, and Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to his litigation experience, Craig’s research, design, project management, and psychology background includes work at the IU Center for Research on Learning and Technology and the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.
