John A. Strong, particular agent inwards accuse of the Charlotte Division of the FBI has chosen Theresa Payton every bit the 2018 Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA) recipient for North Carolina. Ms. Payton is the possessor of Fortalice Solutions, a Charlotte-based cybersecurity company.
Ms. Payton recognizes the necessitate for private manufacture in addition to the FBI to part data to protect our country’s intellectual property. Ms. Payton encourages her customers to notify in addition to operate amongst the FBI if they suspect a cyber intrusion or economical espionage. Her influence in addition to partnership late assisted the FBI inwards a illustration involving a Chinese citizen who stole millions of dollars of merchandise secrets from a North Carolina company. He is serving lx months inwards prison.
She has been a board fellow member of the Charlotte Chapter of the InfraGard for to a greater extent than than 5 years. She travels some the dry reason promoting the operate of InfraGard in addition to the data sharing efforts of the FBI to private industry. She helped spearhead a novel Charlotte InfraGard cyber campsite which engages local high schoolhouse students to pursue careers inwards Science, Technology, Engineering, in addition to Mathematics (STEM) in addition to cybersecurity.
Ms. Payton too volunteers her fourth dimension in addition to fellowship resources to assist stimulate produce human trafficking through the National Center for Missing in addition to Exploited Children. Ms. Payton is the erstwhile White House CIO. She is a regular TV/Radio contributor who focuses her message on the importance of data sharing betwixt world in addition to private entities in addition to the significance of protecting companies in addition to individuals from online predators in addition to cyber-attacks.
Since 1990, through the DCLA, the FBI has publicly recognized the achievements of individuals in addition to organizations who bring gone higher upward in addition to beyond the telephone telephone to service yesteryear making extraordinary contributions to their communities inwards the areas of terrorism, cyber, drug, gang, or violence prevention in addition to education.
FBI Director Christopher Wray volition formally recognize Theresa Payton every bit North Carolina’s DCLA recipient during the Director’s Community Leadership Award ceremony at FBI Headquarters inwards Washington, D.C., on Apr 20, 2018.
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