Tahira Mammen is the Cybersecurity Director at the National Security Agency, She has held various positions during her time at NSA, including in the mathematics development program, as a Cyber-Analyst and in multiple leadership roles. Tahira holds multiple Cyber and Intelligence-related certifications and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She strongly believes that her LSS education enables her to critically examine and optimize business workflows and systems for the offices to which she is assigned or leads. Tahira is a passionate leader and contributor to initiatives that aim to improve employee morale. Tahira has a Bachelors degree in Russian Linguistics and Mathematics from Bryn Mawr Collage and a Masters Degree in Statistics from Rice University