Dr. Inez Miyamoto joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in September 2019. Her focus areas include cybersecurity, cyber warfare, and transnational crime. Currently, her work centers on developing senior-leader cyber exercises to enhance their understanding of cyber interdependencies and the cascading effects of cyberattacks. She collaborates with U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific, supporting governments, military forces, and civil society in strengthening resilience against cyber intrusions and hybrid warfare threats. In addition, she works to improve coordination among policymakers, law enforcement, and private-sector stakeholders to help them better respond to evolving cyber threats

Prior to joining DKI APCSS, Inez served as a Special Agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where she led cyber investigative teams responding to nation-state cyber intrusions, transnational organized crime, intellectual property theft, financial fraud, and counterintelligence threats. While at FBI Headquarters, she conducted strategic planning, risk analysis, and compliance oversight and developed programs to support national security priorities, focusing on threat mitigation, interagency coordination, and operational effectiveness. In addition to conducting investigations, Inez was a certified computer forensics examiner, a SWAT tactical operations center coordinator, and a public-private sector liaison, facilitating cyber threat intelligence sharing between government, industry, and international partners. As FBI adjunct faculty, she developed and taught a cyber investigative curriculum, training both FBI employees and international law enforcement officers. Inez also represented the FBI as a Mansfield Fellow (2000), working with Japanese law enforcement agencies to enhance cybercrime investigations and enforcement capabilities. She later served as an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Exceptional Analyst Fellow (2007), conducting research on conflict dynamics, geopolitical risk, and emerging threats in cyberspace. In support of her profession, she served as a board member of the Honolulu Chapter of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (2011-2018) and as a representative for the FBI Agents Association in Honolulu. Additionally, she served as a U.S. Army officer, specializing in military intelligence.

Inez earned the CISSP and GSEC certifications and graduated from the FBI National Academy (Class 266). She was awarded the following degrees: Ph.D. in Engineering Management, George Washington University; Ed.D in Education, University of Southern California; M.A. in National Security & Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College; M.S. in Strategic Intelligence, National Intelligence University; M.Ed. in Special Education, University of Hawaii; M.A. in Management, Webster University; B.S. in Software Engineering, Chapman University; and B.A. in Japanese Language, University of Hawaii. Her publications include Miyamoto, Inez, Thomas H. Holzer, and Shahryar Sarkani. “Why a counterfeit risk avoidance strategy fails.” Computers & Security, 2017; Talabis, Mark, Robert McPherson, Inez Miyamoto, and Jason Martin. “Information Security Analytics: Finding Security Insights, Patterns, and Anomalies in Big Data.” Syngress, 2014.

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