Ryan Larson is the Lead CND Architect at the NSA's Enterprise IA Architecture & Systems Engineering Office. Mr. Larson supports OSD/NII in developing the architecture views of the DoD Computer Network Defense Architecture. He has worked initiatives including designing network defenses for the DoD gateways, architectural risk analyses, designing
information sharing pilots and web services, architectural view development and documentation, and portfolio analysis, among others. He has a masters in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University with a focus in Information Security.