Our Presenters:  Gen Tamura & Alison Yakabe.

Gen Tamura currently serves as a Protective Security Advisor (PSA) for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Honolulu District, which includes Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas islands, and American Samoa. As a PSA, Mr. Tamura provides subject matter expertise in critical infrastructure protection and vulnerability mitigation and facilitates local field activities in coordination with other Department of Homeland Security offices. He also advises and assists state, local, territorial, and private sector officials and critical infrastructure facility owners and operators.

Alison Yakabe works as the DHS Intelligence Officer for Northern California assigned to the fusion center in San Francisco. In this role she makes the intelligence cycle work for local partners across all sectors of critical infrastructure. Alison draws on over a decade of experience at the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center including 7 years as their Lead Cyber Intelligence Analyst. She holds an M.A. in International Security with a concentration in Remote Sensing from the University of Denver and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth.