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Bruce Matthews

Associate Director

Bruce Matthews is an expert in cyber threat intelligence, security technology, information assurance, policy, training, senior management, and inter-agency liaisons. His work at Maximus includes supporting the U.S. Department of Defense and Federal civilian agencies in cyber threat intelligence, developing the Maximus IoT Security Framework, countermeasures development, program management, and risk management.

Before joining Maximus, he served with the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) where he directed research and development activities that examined technical surveillance countermeasures technologies. He provided intelligence community guidance for wireless and overseas security policy formulation.

During his career at the State Department, Mr. Matthews served in numerous security engineering assignments protecting U.S. embassies against top-tier intelligence and terrorist actors. His leadership positions included Managing Director and Acting Deputy Secretary of State for Office of Foreign Missions.

Mr. Matthews also served as a U.S. exchange officer to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a Senior Inspector conducting cyber and countermeasures activities.

Bruce Matthews' Insights
Article | Feb 24, 2023

Back to basics with Cybersecurity

Bruce Matthews discusses CISA’s cybersecurity goals and how many organizations don’t have fundamental security protection.

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Article | Apr 15, 2021

Employing traditional risk analysis to achieve advanced cyber threat intelligence

To help protect your department, agency, and/or organization and those it services, we encourage you to map known tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to frameworks such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework, to discern likely next moves by a suspected or identified attacker.

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Article | Mar 13, 2021

Advanced cyber threat intelligence: A first principles approach to risk mitigation

As the field of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) evolves and coalesces around standard practices, invoking the threat intelligence cycle and attack frameworks/models, it is useful to think outside of the proverbial box to leverage foundational security principles to help protect your department, agency, and/or organization and those it serves.

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