{"id":924,"date":"2019-07-28T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wbklaw.wpengine.com\/team\/clete-johnson\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:25:40","slug":"clete-johnson","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.wbklaw.com\/our-team\/clete-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Clete Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Clete\u2019s leadership has been foundational in shaping laws and policies at the intersection of technology and security that he now helps clients navigate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His leadership has grown from a unique combination of senior roles \u2013 on Capitol Hill, in the national security and intelligence communities, in the regulatory arena, in the Executive Branch, and in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Based on his experiences as an Army logistics officer in Korea and Germany and as an export controls and international trade lawyer in the years before and after 9\/11, Clete believes that efficient and mutually beneficial teamwork between government and industry is the key imperative in defending against the sophisticated transnational threats of the 21st century.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This principle guides his advocacy on behalf of clients facing these threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clete\u2019s expertise in cybersecurity policy developed through his work as Senator John D. Rockefeller IV\u2019s counsel on the Senate Intelligence Committee, defending against illicit networks of all kinds \u2013 financial, terrorist, proliferation, and cyber.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As a deep believer in improving government-industry partnership, Clete was the primary staff drafter of the legislation that codified the National Institute of Standards and Technology\u2019s collaborative process through which industry developed and updates the Cybersecurity Framework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As the FCC\u2019s first Chief Counsel for Cybersecurity, Clete focused on creating new legal mechanisms for government collaboration with private sector stakeholders to improve the security of communications infrastructure.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Clete last served in government as Secretary Penny Pritzker\u2019s Senior Adviser for Cybersecurity and Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was the Department\u2019s staff representative for National Security Council deliberations on cybersecurity, encryption, and other issues emerging at the nexus of digital business and international security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1693,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-924","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clete Johnson - Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbklaw.com\/our-team\/clete-johnson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clete Johnson - Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Clete\u2019s leadership has been foundational in shaping laws and policies at the intersection of technology and security that he now helps clients navigate.\u00a0 His leadership has grown from a unique combination of senior roles \u2013 on Capitol Hill, in the national security and intelligence communities, in the regulatory arena, in the Executive Branch, and in... 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