Jonathan Besko

Jon is a U.S. Air Force Veteran who spent nine years of Active Duty service focused on systems engineering, computer network defense, secure messaging, project management, and digital forensics.  He served his last tour on a special duty assignment within an Intelligence Community component agency where he was eventually appointed as the Chief of their Forensics Examination Laboratory, supporting security and counterintelligence investigations. 

After leaving the Air Force, Jon spent the last 16+ years supporting an IC component agency’s Counterintelligence and Insider Threat Programs.  He’s been a credentialed cyber-counterintelligence investigator and has spent time as an FBI Task Force Officer where he contributed to numerous counterespionage investigations.  Following the release of Executive Order 13587, Jon assisted the newly established National Insider Threat Task Force in developing the NITTF Minimum Standards, while supporting the conception of his parent agency’s formal Insider Threat Program, aiding in its strategy, structure, and advanced analytic capabilities.

Today, Jon is a Program Director with GDIT.  He is still embedded with the same IC component agency’s Insider Threat Program in a consultative leadership role, while helping to deliver insider threat, counterintelligence, and security solutions across GDIT’s Intelligence and Homeland Security Division.

Jon has earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from National-Louis University, a Master of Science in Computer Forensics from George Mason University, and a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from Argosy University. He holds a Carnegie Melon Insider Threat Program Manger Certificate; he is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a DoD Counter-Insider Threat Professional, and Digital Forensic Examiner.