Bob Kolasky was selected to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency’s (CISA) National Risk Management Center (NRMC) in
2018, at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As one of CISA’s
Assistant Directors, he oversees the Center’s efforts to facilitate a
strategic, cross-sector risk management approach to cyber and
physical threats to critical infrastructure. The Center provides a central
venue for government and industry to combine their knowledge and
capabilities in a uniquely collaborative and forward-looking
environment. Center activities support both operational and strategic unified risk management
efforts.
As head of the National Risk Management Center, Mr. Kolasky has the responsibility to develop
integrated analytic capability to analyze risk to critical infrastructure and work across the
national community to reduce risk. As part of that, he co-chairs the Information and
Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force and leads CISA’s efforts
to support development of a secure 5G network. He also serves on the Executive Committee
for the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council.
Mr. Kolasky’s current position is the culmination of years of risk and resilience experience. He
most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for
Infrastructure Protection (IP), where he led the coordinated national effort to partner with
industry to reduce the risk posed by acts of terrorism and other cyber or physical threats to the
nation’s critical infrastructure, including election infrastructure. .
Mr. Kolasky has served in a number of other senior leadership roles for DHS, including acting
Deputy Under Secretary for NPPD before it became CISA and the Director of the DHS CyberPhysical Critical Infrastructure Integrated Task Force to implement Presidential Policy Directive
21 on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, as well as Executive Order 13636 on Critical
Infrastructure Cybersecurity.
He is also the former Assistant Director for the Office of Risk Management Analysis at DHS
where he was responsible for developing DHS’s formative policies and processes for risk
management, including the DHS Risk Management Fundamentals and Risk Lexicon. Prior to
joining DHS, he was a journalist and an entrepreneur. He helped start two of the first public
policy web sites and served as the Managing Editor for IntellectualCapital.com.
Mr. Kolasky joined the Federal government in 2008 after six years as a management consultant.
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1994 and from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2002.