Executive Vice President & General Manager Security Best Practices & Automation Group, CIS
Curtis W. Dukes joined CIS as the Executive Vice President and General Manager
of the Best Practices and Automation Group in January 2017. The CIS Security
Benchmarks and Security Controls program provides vendor-agnostic,
consensus-based best practices to help organizations assess and improve
their security. Prior to CIS, Curtis served as the Deputy National Manager (DNM)
for National Security Systems (NSS). On behalf of the Director of NSA, the
DNM is charged with securing systems that handle classified information or are
otherwise critical to military
and intelligence activities.
Dukes joined the National Security Agency in 1984 as a Computer Scientist. He
served in a variety of organizations within NSA, and earned the Distinguished
Executive, Meritorious Executive, as well as Exceptional Performance and
Meritorious Civilian Service Awards. He completed an overseas assignment
and an intelligence community assignment for the Department of Defense.
In Germany, Curtis had operational responsibilities for implementing Information
Assurance activities across the European command. Following his community
assignment, he became Deputy, then Chief of the Network Architecture
and Applications Division, then Chief of the Systems and Network Attack Center.
He later led highly skilled technical workforces as Director NSA/CSS Commercial
Solutions Center. His last roles of responsibility at NSA were Deputy Director,
then Director, of the Information Assurance Directorate.
Dukes earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of
Florida, and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
He is a 2004 graduate of the Intelligence Community Officer Training Program.
