Mr. Charles “Nick” Parham currently serves as the Marine Transportation System (MTS) Cybersecurity Coordinator (GS-14) for the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Area Command (LANT Area) and has served in this capacity since January of 2021. The area of responsibility for LANT Area encompasses all inland and coastal maritime operations east of the Rocky Mountains including Puerto Rico with oversight of Marine Transportation System Specialist-Cybersecurity (MTSS-C) personnel stationed at five District offices and their thirty-one subordinate units. In this position, Nick is responsible for development and execution of Coast Guard cybersecurity regulations and policies impacting maritime transportation system stakeholders. He is also responsible for the strategic coordination of missions conducted by thirty-six MTSS-Cs assigned within LANT Area. As the MTS Cybersecurity Coordinator, Nick operationalizes the Coast Guard’s Cyber Strategic Outlook by building relationships between Coast Guard units, especially between Coast Guard Cyber Command and the local field units, to deliver much needed resources to national MTS critical infrastructure. This is delivered through Cyber Protection Team (CPT) assessment and response missions as well as enhancing cyber resiliency through shoreside and vessel security planning with stakeholders. These efforts have culminated in more than thirty CPT missions and the update to more than one thousand nine hundred shoreside Facility Security Plans to include cybersecurity risk mitigation within LANT Area since 2021.