Iranga Kahangama
Non-Resident Fellow, CLTC Public Interest Cybersecurity
Iranga Kahangama most recently served as the Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk, and Resilience at the Department of Homeland Security. At DHS, he was the senior executive responsible for cyber, AI, and critical infrastructure policy for the Department. Previously, he served at the White House in the National Security Council as Director for Cyber Incident Response. In that role, he was the principal author of Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. He also oversaw the Federal Government’s response to a wide range of malicious cyber activity, including the Russia attributed SolarWinds incident, China’s exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers, and ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and Kaseya Software. Prior to the NSC, he served as a senior policy advisor at the FBI, working on an array of cyber, internet, and technology policy issues. This included leading the FBI’s program on internet governance, where he was part of the US delegation to various internet governance. He earned a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
