Sarah Freeman is a cyber threat intelligence analyst with more than a decade of experience supporting USG partners and private sector organizations. Currently, she supports MITRE’s Cyber Infrastructure Protection Innovation Center (CIPIC) as a Principal Cyber Engagement Operations Engineer researching next era defense and deterrence technologies. Previously, she served as a Senior ICS Cyber Security Analyst at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and pursued innovative threat analysis and cyber defense approaches, including Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering (CCE) (for which she holds a US patent) and Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE). In January 2021, Ms. Freeman and her INL colleague published Countering Cyber Sabotage with CRC press.
Ms. Freeman’s past research has focused on new signatures and structured methods for cyber adversary characterization. Following the December 2015 electric grid attacks, she participated in the DOE-sponsored training for Ukrainian asset owners in May 2016. She has also researched the Ukrainian 2015 and 2016 cyber-attacks and the Trisis/Hatman incident.
