Charissa Hightower
Director of Client Engagement, Intel 471
Charissa Hightower is the Director of Client Engagement at Intel 471. Charissa is an internal advocate for our clients ensuring that they effectively use and integrate our cybercriminal intelligence solutions to operationally and strategically address the threats from the cybercriminal underground community.
Ms. Hightower is a former U.S. Navy Cryptologic Technician, with a cumulative 15 yrs. in the Intelligence Community (IC) as a target analyst and reporter. Charissa has spent time working several high-priority missions to include: Counter-proliferation, Counter-narcotics, Network Intrusion, and served as the lead SIGINT reporter and analyst for numerous global military exercises.
Most recently, Ms. Hightower was the Global lead for Cyber Threat Intelligence for Hewlett Packard Enterprises Managed Security Services, where she established and directed their first Cyber Threat Intelligence program.