Virginia Wright
- Chief Technology Officer, Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
- Idaho National Laboratory, USA
Virginia “Ginger” Wright is the Chief Technology Officer for the Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Division and the program manager for Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). She leads INL’s implementation of the National Strategy for Cyber-Informed Engineering developed by the Department of Energy. Cyber-Informed Engineering was the 2026 winner of the Research Impact Cyber Policy Award from the Institute for Security and Technology.
Ms. Wright has led multiple cyber research programs at INL including DOE-CESER’s Cyber Testing for Resilient Industrial Control Systems (CyTRICS™) program, Software Bills of Material for the Energy Sector, critical infrastructure modeling and simulation, and nuclear cybersecurity. Ms. Wright has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems/Operations Management from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an appointed fellow of the Control System Cyber Security Association International.
Sessions
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AI for Infrastructure Protection and Defending Against AI
Protection From AI: Cyber-Informed Engineering as a Design Framework for AI-Integrated Industrial Control Systems
AI is transforming both critical infrastructure protection and the threats facing it. This session will consider how AI can enhance threat detection, predictive maintenance, situational awareness, incident response and resilience planning, alongside emerging risks such as AI-enabled cyberattacks, automated exploitation, deepfakes and misinformation. Learn how organisations can assess and manage these opportunities and threats, establish effective governance and safeguards, and harness AI responsibly while avoiding new vulnerabilities, dependencies and resilience challenges.