Olivia Phillips is the Business Information Security Officer (BISO) at Amtrak, where she serves as the strategic bridge between cybersecurity, technology, and business operations. With more than two decades of experience in cybersecurity, risk management, and enterprise governance, Olivia focuses on translating complex cyber risk into clear, actionable business decisions.
At Amtrak, Olivia leads initiatives across the organization. She partners closely with service owners, engineers, and executives to embed security into modernization efforts—without slowing innovation. Her work emphasizes secure-by-design, operational resilience, and practical risk reduction across both IT and OT environments.
Olivia is known for her collaborative leadership style and her ability to align security outcomes with mission-critical transportation operations. She is an award-winning security executive, an active industry speaker, and a strong advocate for responsible AI, modern cyber governance, and developing the next generation of cyber leaders.
Olivia brings a business-first security perspective—helping innovators understand how to build solutions that are not only creative and disruptive, but also secure, scalable, and operationally viable in real-world rail environments.
