Pia Capra is the Director of the OT Cybersecurity Capability within Booz Allen Commercial. She has over fourteen years of professional experience, including leading technical programs relating to OT cybersecurity strategy, threat detection, and incident response. She has experience developing comprehensive strategies around the people, processes, and technologies needed to enable organizations to increase their ability to monitor threats within an OT environment. Through her assessment programs with manufacturing and energy companies, she developed and presented multiple presentations to site personnel and corporate management regarding the outcome of the site visits, assessment results, and next steps to improve their cybersecurity posture.
Capra also has experience leading an ICS Threat Detection program that enabled analytics to evaluate ICS network traffic, identity anomalies, and potentially malicious actors in the environment. Additionally, she has presented at several industry conferences on the topic of ICS and industrial cybersecurity. Capra has M.S. in Cybersecurity, University of Maryland University College and a B.S. in information sciences and technology, Minor in security and risk analysis, The Pennsylvania State University with certifications from Program Management Institute, PMP and CompTIA Security+ CE.