Daryle Hernandez serves as the Director of the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) located in the Infrastructure Security Division within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this role, he is responsible for implementing Presidential Executive Order 12977 to enhance the quality and effectiveness of security in, and the protection of buildings and non-military Federal facilities in the United States. He does this with and through the chief security officers and other senior executives from 60 Federal departments and agencies that make up the ISC membership. Prior to his arrival to IP, Mr. Hernandez was an interagency senior advisor with a FEMA National Incident Management Assistance Team where he deployed in support of incident response operations in Guam and South Carolina. Hernandez is an experienced protection and security professional with more than 25 years of organizational leadership. His formal education includes a Master’s degree in Political Science from Rutgers University and a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War College.
In 1995, a domestic terrorist detonated a rental truck filled with a potent, home-made bomb built from fertilizer and other easily available chemicals, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and wounding hundreds more.