Steve Orrin is Intel Government Technologies’ Director of Security R&D and a Senior Principal Engineer. He has held technology leadership positions at Intel where leading cybersecurity programs, custom hardware and software architecture and solutions, products, and strategy.

Steve is a cybersecurity expert and sought-after advisor to public and private sector leaders on enterprise security, risk mitigations, and securing complex systems. He is also a leading authority on Public Sector/Federal mission and enterprise systems and solutions, regularly engaging with United States government senior technical and mission leadership.

He is the Intel representative on security standards and guidance, and has contributed to several NIST standards and guidance publications. Steve is the supply chain threat and risk management advisor to DOD and Intelligence Community senior leadership and was chosen by the U.S. government to serve as a Special Government Employee on the congressionally mandated taskforce to perform an assessment of Microelectronics Quantifiable Assurance (MQA)/Microelectronics Security.

Steve was previously CSO for Sarvega, CTO of Sanctum, CTO and co-founder of LockStar, and CTO at SynData Technologies. He is a recognized expert and frequent lecturer on next generation architectures and enterprise security, speaking and keynoting at industry and broad market conferences, podcasts, and has authored numerous articles and posts on key technical and strategic topics.

He was named one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTO’s, received Executive Mosaic’s Top CTO Executives Award, is a Washington Exec Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2023, was the Vice-Chair of the NSITC/IDESG Security Committee, and was a Guest Researcher at NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE).

He is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a Fellow at the Tortora Brayda Institute for AI & Cybersecurity, and the chair of the INSA Cyber Committee.