Annie McIntyre

Annie McIntyre is an industry leader and executive with decades of expertise in security of critical energy and defense operations. She provides consultative and advisory services to corporations, Boards of Directors, investment firms, and government. She focuses on complex decisions that involve technology, processes, and people in operational environments. She is a Licensed Private Investigator in the State of Texas.

Ms. McIntyre was the founding Chief Security Officer at EverLine, leading all cyber, physical, and human operations. She joined EverLine at its inception, when they acquired Ardua Strategies, Inc., a corporation providing solutions for operational security issues of energy and infrastructure, which she founded in 2011 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer. She served as Technical Lead for the Linking Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cybersecurity (LOGIIC) project from 2011 to 2018, a public-private partnership between industry and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Prior to founding Ardua Strategies, Ms. McIntyre was a Principal Member of Technical Staff and Program Manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her research areas at Sandia included threats, vulnerabilities, and protection of critical infrastructure systems, and cyber security for fossil and renewable energy systems. She managed the Sandia-Mesa del Sol Strategic Partnership Program and participated in programs such as the Institute for Infrastructure Information Protection (I3P), and National SCADA Test Bed. Ms. McIntyre conducted the first cyber analysis of a renewable system in 2007 for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Prior to work in critical infrastructure, Ms. McIntyre worked extensively in the defense sector on information warfare and survivability, serving as IO Laboratory Chief and Information Warfare Lead for Future Combat Systems Assessments at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. She previously served as New Mexico Regional Manager for Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a defense and energy contractor, and performed systems analysis and engineering in the bioinformatics field for Molecular Informatics, Inc.

As an expert in security of critical operations, throughout her career, she has worked closely with the U.S. Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, and Defense. Ms. McIntyre conducts extensive work on security policies as they relate to energy and infrastructure. She served as an author for the American Petroleum Institute’s SCADA Security Standard (1164v2) and has served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Technology Leadership Institute.

In 2023, she was recognized by Mission Critical Magazine as one of the Top 25 Women in Technology. She served as a Board Member on the Mission Critical Global Alliance and serves on the Advisory Council at the North American Energy Standards Board.

She is well-published on security for the most critical operations, conducts training, and provides keynote conference presentations.