Dr. Anita D'Amico, Director

Anita D’Amico, Ph.D. is the Director of the Secure Decisions division. She is both a human factors psychologist and an information security specialist. Her specialty area is cyber defense situational awareness, particularly improving cyber defense decision-making through visualization.

Prior to joining Applied Visions, Dr. D’Amico was the founder and head of Information Warfare at Northrop Grumman, the fourth largest defense contractor in the US. She led a major activity to develop a system for forecasting coordinated cyber attacks on military networks. She also led the Electronic Industries Association study of future Information Warfare tactics to be used in 2010 warfare.

In addition to directing Secure Decisions’ business, Dr. D’Amico also acts as principal investigator on a number of our research efforts with the Department of Defense, including a DARPA program to create visualizations of the mission and business impact of cyber security breaches.

Dr. D'Amico holds a Ph.D. and MA in Psychology from Adelphi University, with a focus in Human Factors and Cognitive Psychology.

See this profile of Dr. D'Amico from Long Island Business News.