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Board cybersecurity-expertise record

Which boards name a director with cybersecurity expertise?

No SEC rule requires a company to say whether any of its directors has cybersecurity expertise. The Commission proposed exactly that requirement in 2022 (Item 407(j) of Regulation S-K), then dropped it from its final 2023 cybersecurity-disclosure rule, reasoning that boards can oversee cybersecurity risk through general risk-management skill rather than a named specialist. Some companies name one anyway, usually in a proxy statement's director qualifications or skills matrix. This record states that exactly as each company's own filing describes it, one company at a time, built as this site reads filings rather than pulled from a feed. It carries no view on whether naming a director this way is meaningful; a voluntary disclosure is a fact about the filing, not a mark of quality.

6 companies on record so far, from this site's own reading of each proxy statement's own words — a growing record, not a survey or a census of all public companies.

  1. Board cybersecurity-expertise record for Banner Corporation, from its proxy statementBanner CorporationBANRDEF 14A filed 6 April 2026Banner Corporation's 2026 proxy names directors Paul J. Walsh and Millicent C. Tracey as bringing cybersecurity and technology expertise to the board.
  2. Board cybersecurity-expertise record for EVERTEC, Inc., from its proxy statementEVERTEC, Inc.EVTCDEF 14A filed 7 April 2026EVERTEC's 2026 proxy names director Olga Botero, a cybersecurity consulting founder, and Kelly Barrett, an NACD-certified cybersecurity director.
  3. Board cybersecurity-expertise record for Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, from its proxy statementHuntington Bancshares IncorporatedHBANDEF 14A filed 6 March 2025Huntington Bancshares' 2025 proxy names John C. (Chris) Inglis, the first U.S. National Cyber Director, and ex-NSA officer Teresa H. Shea with cybersecurity expertise.
  4. Board cybersecurity-expertise record for Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., from its proxy statementHuntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.HIIDEF 14A filed 21 March 2025Huntington Ingalls' 2025 proxy statement names director Admiral Kirkland H. Donald as holding cybersecurity expertise, citing a Carnegie Mellon CERT certificate.
  5. Board cybersecurity-expertise record for N-able, Inc., from its proxy statementN-able, Inc.NABLDEF 14A filed 11 April 2025N-able's 2025 proxy names directors Ann Johnson, a Microsoft security executive, and Cam McMartin as qualifying the board on cybersecurity.
  6. Board cybersecurity-expertise record for The Greenbrier Companies, Inc., from its proxy statementThe Greenbrier Companies, Inc.GBXDEF 14A filed 17 November 2025Greenbrier's 2025 proxy lists five directors, including board chair Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, with cybersecurity among their stated qualifications.