Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, Washington, United States

Mark Watson is a cyber security analyst at PNNL. His current work focuses on cyber security for energy and water resilience assessments, hydropower and marine renewable energy, and incident response and computer network defense operations. Mr. Watson is developing risk management and situational awareness capabilities in critical infrastructure cyber security for the Department of Energy and the military components within the Department of Defense. Mr. Watson served in the United States Navy as a cryptologic technician in intelligence analysis and linguistics supporting the intelligence community. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Pacific Lutheran University and an Associate of Arts degree in Spanish from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Mr. Watson works on an array of research projects supporting the national security portfolio.