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Overview
Matt Morris is a cyber-physical systems security and AI governance executive working at the intersection of national security, critical infrastructure, and operational resilience. He has advised federal agencies, supported global media coverage, and briefed institutional audiences on how digital technologies influence national security and safety-critical infrastructure.
His analysis has informed media, government, and industry leaders seeking clarity on how emerging technologies affect physical systems, geopolitical stability, and infrastructure modernization.
This page contains press-ready bios, talking points, media coverage, and contact information for interviews, briefings, and events.
Topics & Angles for Media
Cyber-Physical Systems & OT Security
ICS/OT security & critical infrastructure risk
Operational technology modernization
Industrial control systems as national security surface
AI in Safety-Critical Environments
Model risk in physical systems
AI governance across industrial and government systems
“AI as a liability surface” framing for boards and CISOs
National Security & Critical Infrastructure
Grid reliability & industrial resilience
Federal programs & standards evolution
Supply chain & geopolitical risk (CRINK perspective)
Governance, Boards & Institutional Risk
System-level risk & operational resilience
CPS failure modes vs cybersecurity incidents
Executive accountability & regulatory pressure
Selected Coverage & Appearances
Global, National & Industry Media
ABC News — Commentary on cyber risk posed to critical infrastructure (Texas ERCOT reliability issues)
Forbes — Industrial cybersecurity & CPS analysis, CCE/CIE for Infrastructure resilience, AI in CPS
Industrial Cyber — CPS/OT sector insights, CCE, CIE, OT security skills gap
T&D World — Commentary on the state of affairs in the industry 2 years Post-Colonial Pipelines
White House Chronicles -- OT versus IT security, and a call for a new approach to CPS security
Industrial Safety & Security Source -- Commentary on Managed Threat Detection & Response
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing — Industrial cybersecurity essential for pharmaceutical companies
Metro UK — Commentary on taking down North Korea by cyber means
CIO Review — Safeguarding Industrial Control Networks
Industry Podcasts —
Government & Institutional Engagements
White House ONCD — Advisor on CPS security and National Security policy
U.S. Department of Energy (CESER) — Industry representation for OT/ICS and advisor for policy considerations
DHS CISA — Industry representation for OT/ICS and advisor for policy considerations
Idaho National Laboratory — CCE & CIE — cyber-informed risk frameworks for physical and digital infrastructure
Matt Morris is a senior executive and practice builder at the convergence of cyber-physical systems security, AI governance, and critical infrastructure resilience. He built the Security & Risk Consulting practice at 1898 & Co. (Burns & McDonnell) from zero to Global Managing Director, has advised ONCD, DOE CESER, and DHS CISA, and coined the terms CPS/IT and CPS/OT to define a category most firms are still learning to navigate. Most recently the founder of Ghostline Strategies, he is now focused on an institutional mandate where his ability to build and drive commercial impact can operate at scale. Based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Matt Morris is one of a small number of executives in the country who has built a security practice from the ground up, scaled it inside a major national engineering firm, and done it at the precise convergence of physical and digital systems — the layer where the next generation of infrastructure risk actually lives.
Over 15+ years, his career has run through Cisco, Siemens Energy, Landis+Gyr, and 1898 & Co. (Burns & McDonnell), where he built the Security & Risk Consulting practice from inception into a nationally recognized capability. Serving Fortune-level enterprises, federal agencies, and critical infrastructure operators across energy, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and transportation, he reached Global Managing Director — the firm's senior leadership tier — in a practice he created from zero.
His federal advisory footprint includes the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), the U.S. Department of Energy (CESER), and DHS CISA. He has partnered with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) on Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) and Consequence-Driven Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) — frameworks shaping how the federal government approaches risk at the physical infrastructure layer.
Matt coined the terms CPS/IT and CPS/OT to describe the convergence layer where enterprise security and industrial operations now intersect — a category that most IT-dominant security firms are still learning to navigate. His ability to operate fluently in both languages has consistently unlocked markets and relationships that traditional IT or OT specialists cannot access alone.
Most recently, he founded Ghostline Strategies — a private advisory focused on cyber-physical systems governance, executive risk framing, and critical infrastructure resilience — and launched The Operational Edge, a practitioner-focused platform advancing the dialogue on CPS and AI risk at the intersection of safety-critical systems and emerging technology. During this period he also worked closely with multiple innovative CPS and AI-focused startups on strategy, go-to-market execution, and market intelligence — staying at the leading edge of where the category is actually heading. With many of those companies now having emerged from stealth, Matt has chosen to shift his focus back to institutional scale, where his ability to build, grow, and drive commercial impact can operate at its fullest potential.
Matt is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and works with executive leadership teams and boards navigating complex security, resilience, and modernization challenges in regulated and high-consequence environments.