Matthew G. Devost – Senior Advisor

Matthew Devost is a technologist, entrepreneur, and international security expert specializing in counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, risk management and cybersecurity issues.

Matt provides expertise to Crucial Point on issues relating to risk management, cybersecurity, and the development of emerging and disruptive technologies for commercial and national security environments.

Matt is best known as the Founder of the Terrorism Research Center where he served as President and CEO from 1996-2008. As founder and President, Mr. Devost oversaw all research, analysis, intelligence, assessment, and training programs including the development of the renowned “Mirror Image” training program, the conception, development and operation of the Responder Knowledge Base (which provided services to 80,000 first responder and federal government users), and the Terrorism Early Warning Group program which looked to establish local intel fusion centers in 56 high-threat U.S. cities.

Matt has played a key role in several start-ups and held senior management positions at Total Intelligence Solutions, Technical Defense, iSIGHT Partners, iDefense, and Security Design International.

Mr. Devost was also appointed as a special government employee to advise the U.S. Department of Defense leadership on a variety of security issues. Mr. Devost has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University since 2002, is a Founding Director of the Cyberconflict Studies Association, and an adjunct member of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group. Mr. Devost has also served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Critical Homeland Infrastructure Protection and on the Senior Advisory Board of the Airline Pilots Association.

Mr. Devost has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, NPR, CBS News, BBC television, NWCN, Australian television and dozens other domestic and international radio and television programs as an expert on terrorism and cybersecurity and has lectured or published for the National Defense University, the United States Intelligence and Law Enforcement Communities, the Swedish, Australian, Japanese, and New Zealand governments, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, American University, George Washington University, and written a number of popular press books – magazines, academic journals and spoken at over 200 international conferences.