Iranga Kahangama

Iranga Kahangama most recently served as the Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk, and Resilience at the Department of Homeland Security until January 2025. At DHS, he was the senior executive responsible for cyber, AI, technology, and critical infrastructure policy for the Department and served as the primary advisor on these issues to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Previously, he served at the White House in the National Security Council as the Director for Cyber Incident Response across both Democratic and Republican Administrations. In that role, he was the principal author of Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. He also oversaw the Federal Government’s response to a wide range of malicious cyber activity, including Russia’s hacking of SolarWinds, China’s exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers, and ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and Kaseya Software. Prior to the NSC, he served as a senior policy advisor at the FBI, working on an array of cyber, internet, and technology policy issues. This included leading the FBI’s program on internet governance, where he was part of the US delegation to various internet governance forums. He earned a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.