This weekend's events put the spotlight on the fact that our nation's critical infrastructure is largely owned and operated by private sector companies, when those companies are attacked, they serve as the first line of defense and we depend on the effectiveness of their defenses.

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (born 1959) is an American national security expert and energy leader who served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Energy from October 2014 to January 20, 2017. Previously, she was White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control and, before that, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs since January 2009. She is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.Her White House Coordinator responsibilities included defense policy and budgeting; the DOD-DOE nuclear weapons enterprise; military sexual assault prevention; the Prague arms control agenda; and the destruction of Syria’s declared chemical weapons.

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