Victor Atkins

Victor Atkins is the global director of executive advisory services for industrial cybersecurity at 1898 & Co., part of Burns & McDonnell, and is based out of Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining 1898 & Co., he managed the cyber intelligence mission for the US Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. He also led programs at the US National Laboratories to discover and characterize sophisticated foreign cyberthreats that would disrupt energy sector operations. Atkins has also served at the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House National Security Council, focused on countering both nuclear terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

He also was named as one of nine inaugural Nonresident Senior Fellows within the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative, which works with US allies and partner governments to develop programs and policies addressing security challenges in the region while finding opportunities for collaboration.