Retired U.S. Army Col. Candice Frost has joined Raytheon as the company’s director of Integrated Department of Defense Account Cybersecurity, Intelligence and Services.
Frost – who is a well-known voice in cybersecurity policy circles – brings plenty of experience to the new job. From 2021 to April 2023, she commanded the Joint Intelligence Operations Center at U.S. Cyber Command. That work included providing intelligence for planning, execution, and assessment of missions to direct, operate, and secure Department of Defense networks, systems, and data.
From 2018 to 2021, Frost was director with the Department of the Army Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2.
In a LinkedIn post this week, Frost said she was “thrilled to start the next adventure on Monday with Raytheon.”
In an address at MeriTalk’s Cyber Central conference in May, Frost talked about the pros and cons of emerging technologies, saying they are a “double-edged” sword – bringing a multitude of benefits for U.S. national defense, but could be equally as dangerous if in the hands of adverse nation-states.
Frost said one example of that can be found with artificial intelligence. “Where we see AI for bad is with proxy cyber criminals attacking public and private entities as a part of their ransomware campaign. Where we see AI for good is the use of security analysis reports, analytics, indicators of compromise, there are some really great things about artificial intelligence,” she said.
“We can use it to make sure greater and more complex types of attacks are actually stopped earlier, but we have to understand what’s underneath the hood,” Frost said.
