Atiya Yearwood

Ms. Atiya Yearwood is the National Security Agency Cybersecurity Directorate’s Deputy Chief of the Cybersecurity Collaboration Center (CCC). At the CCC, she oversees NSA’s engagement in open private sector relationships to secure the Defense Industrial Base and enhance NSA’s ability to prevent and eradicate cyber threats.

Ms. Yearwood has served in a variety of cryptographic orchestration positions during her career at the Agency. She began her career as a resource management officer, and spent a decade playing an integral role in the daily operations of NSA’s National Cryptologic School, Intelligence Analysis, and Cybersecurity Directorate. She was then selected for a detail at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she helped lead the Intelligence Community’s strategy to reconstitute technical capabilities degraded due to unauthorized disclosures.

She returned to NSA as a Legislative Affairs Officer, where she built, managed, and advanced the Agency’s priorities through relationships with Congress, with a focus on next-generation technical capabilities. Prior to her current position, she served as the Executive Assistant to General Paul M. Nakasone, USA, Director of NSA, Chief Central Security Services, and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), where she monitored execution of NSA and USCYBERCOM operations across the global enterprise during the Afghanistan Withdrawal, various international crises, several malicious cybersecurity incidents, and reconstitution and modernization of NSA and USCYBERCOM workforces post COVID-19 amongst other high priority efforts.

As a passionate mentor and explorer, Ms. Yearwood spends her time cultivating and empowering the next generation of NSA’s diverse, premier workforce in between her personal world travels to discover and immerse in different cultures.