Victoria Porto has stepped into a new role as Deputy Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), she announced on LinkedIn.
Porto brings more than a decade of leadership experience within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where she has overseen financial management, program accountability, and large-scale policy initiatives. Most recently, she served as Senior Counselor to the USCIS Director and Acting Chief of the Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Office, where she led reforms to strengthen compliance and operational integrity across the agency.
Earlier this year, Porto directed readiness operations as Acting Executive Director in DHS’s Office of the Chief Readiness Support Officer, overseeing $235 million in investments, managing nationwide return-to-office compliance, and advancing the department’s use of artificial intelligence in mission support.
From 2020 to 2025, she was Executive Director of Programs at DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, where she led the national Fusion Center Information Sharing Strategy, managed oversight of more than $43 billion in federal financial assistance programs, and advanced DHS’s AI integration efforts. Her leadership earned recognition with the DHS Secretary’s Team Excellence Award in 2024.
Porto also previously led USCIS’s Verification Division, managing operations for E-Verify and SAVE with a $192 million budget, and held financial management roles guiding budget forecasts and performance planning for USCIS.
Her earlier career included establishing USCIS’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Office in Washington, D.C., which facilitated billions in U.S. investment and job creation.
Porto holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, a master’s in Public Administration from American University, and a Certificate in International Migration Studies from Georgetown University.
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