Paul Blahusch has been named Cybersecurity Advisor for the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, a role in which he will provide strategic guidance to strengthen cybersecurity programs across member institutions. He announced the move on LinkedIn.
Blahusch brings decades of federal cybersecurity leadership to the position. Most recently, he served as Chief Information Security Officer at the U.S. Department of Labor, where he spent nearly seven years overseeing cybersecurity risk management, program leadership, policy development, and security operations. Before that, he was Cybersecurity Director at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for nearly two decades.
In addition to his new role with the Consortium, Blahusch is a Mission Critical Fellow, contributing expertise on enterprise security strategy, insider threat mitigation, and federal modernization efforts to bolster national cyber resilience.
Blahusch began his career as a systems analyst before moving into senior cybersecurity leadership. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Penn State University.
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