Matthew Travis

Matthew Travis is a businessman and former American government official.^[2] He served as the Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).^[3] Travis served as Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD)^[4][5] before the agency became CISA on November 16, 2018.^[6]

Matthew Travis
Deputy Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
In office November 16, 2018 – November 17, 2020
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Nitin Natarajan[1]
Personal details
Born	Brooklyn, New York
Education	University of Notre Dame Georgetown University

Career

Travis graduated from the University of Notre Dame and joined the U.S. Navy in 1991 as an active duty officer.^[7] Travis served aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. CARR (FFG 52) as the Engineering Auxiliaries Officer as well as the maritime interdiction boarding officer in the Northern Red Sea following Operation Desert Storm.^[7]

Upon leaving military service in 1998, Travis began a career in government consulting.^[2] He built the Homeland Security team at DFI before its merger with Detica and following the firm's acquisition by BAE Systems.^[8][9] In 2010, Travis co-founded Obsidian Analysis,^[10] a homeland security consulting firm, which was acquired by Cadmus in 2016.^[11]

Travis joined the Trump Administration as Deputy Under Secretary for DHS' NPPD in March 2018.^[6] In November 2018, Congress passed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, creating CISA as a component of DHS and elevating NPPD into CISA.^[12] Travis served as the Deputy Director of that new agency,^[13] until the White House pressured him to resign on November 17, 2020.^[14]