Edward T.

About Edward T.

Ed Turkaly is a Critical Infrastructure Principal Leader within Idaho National Labs, promoting Cyber-Informed Engineering, serving projects under DOE CESER / CyTRIXS, while also developing new INL business for US States and the DoD. With more than 20 years of security experience, Ed provides strategic solutions and expert guidance grounded in a position of risk management and safety. His expertise comes from numerous strategic customer assessments, business case development, and experience resolving real cybersecurity incidents within Power Generation (Nuclear), Oil & Gas, Data Center, Mining, Dept of Defense, and DHS. Ed is talented, keeping the big picture while structuring down to specific tightly coupled inter-dependencies to improve business resiliency. Past accomplishments include building a complete cybersecurity portfolio and business cases for GE & Baker Hughes, former Deputy CISO designing and implemented an American first IT/OT MSSP ($36M investment), several NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) “black-box” security assessments (within Southern Company), Director of cybersecurity offers at Schneider Electric moving novel state of art technologies from innovation to productization and commercialization, and former Director at DHS ICE Security Operations Center / Computer Security Incident Response Center (SOC/CSIRC), mentoring a team to meet 4 hour containment SLAs. Ed has an admirable “lead by example” style from his extensive experience managing and mentoring execution and sales teams. Ed is a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Managers (FAcEM) after completing the master’s program with the Emergency Management Academy’s Disaster Science Fellowship of FEMA’s Body of Knowledge. Presently he is completing the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, as well completing Incident Commander status to voluntary help local business in need. The biggest impression you will obtain from Ed is that he bring enormous attention and focus, open curiosity, with expert guidance, while keeping cool under pressure. What sets him apart from many peers has been leading resolutions of real security challenges while holding major responsibilities. Ed Turkaly CISSP, GICSP, FAcEM, FITSI-P, CSSA, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Experience

1. Critical Infrastructure Security Analyst

   Idaho National Laboratory

   Nov 2024 — Present

Education

• George Mason University

  B.A

  1992 — 1995

• Emergency Management Academy

  Master's degree

  2011 — 2012