Amy Howland

Amy Howland serves as Guidehouse CISO and has 25 years of cybersecurity and information assurance experience. Her experience has supported commercial and public sector organizations, including civilian agencies and the U.S. Department of Defense. She applies commercial and federal approaches to policy, governance, risk, vulnerability management, security operations, and compliance.

Howland previously served as CISO for Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. She also served as Vice President and CISO for Perspecta, now Peraton, and as CISO for CSRA, now GDIT, in Northern Virginia. She has fostered and maintained compliance with the NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC frameworks. Her responsibilities have included cybersecurity compliance and risk management, including third-party risk, as well as security operations and integration activities. She has overseen security engineering, insider threat, security operations center, malware, threat intelligence, cybersecurity architecture, and vulnerability management.

Howland began her career as a financial auditor and certified public accountant with Ernst & Young. She moved internally to cybersecurity as an ethical hacker and later served as a manager for the firm's Security & Technology practice. Her education includes a B.S. in Accountancy from George Washington University. Her listed certificates include Certified Project Management Professional and Certified Information Systems Security Professional. They also include Certified Information Systems Security Management Professional and Information Systems Security Architecture Professional.