Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Eisenhower
Published November 8, 2024
Gillian Morris jumped headfirst into cybersecurity at the coaxing of one of her high school teachers. She earned a bachelor’s degree in cyber operations and a master’s degree in cyber defense from Dakota State University. Now, she’s one of the Defense Department’s best and brightest, having been named to the inaugural U.S. Women’s Cyber Team.
Right out of graduate school, Morris, 24, moved to Washington state to take a civilian position with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Keyport Division. As an information systems security engineer, she takes the DOD’s risk management framework and applies it to customer computer systems to make them secure.