About - Staff Member - Mike Flynn
Mike Flynn
Mike Flynn is Senior Vice President and Counsel for Government Affairs and Economic Security Policy at the 91快活林 (91快活林). In this capacity, he leads 91快活林’s advocacy efforts on cybersecurity issues and the national security implications of technology and telecommunications.
Before joining 91快活林, Mike served as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, Chaired by Senator Ron Johnson. In this role, Mike handled a number of cybersecurity issues such as vulnerability disclosure policy, operational collaboration, secure information technology and communications supply chains, and federal data breach investigations.
Prior to his time in the Senate, Mike served in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Committee on Homeland Security. While in the House Mike worked on a range of technology issues from federal IT modernization and security, to encryption. Mike was also the lead cybersecurity oversight attorney that investigated the data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management in 2014, while working on the IT Subcommittee chaired by Congressman Will Hurd.
In addition to his committee work, Mike was co-founder and Republican co-chair of the Congressional Tech Staffers Association whose mission is to foster direct connections between technologists and policy makers. Mike received his B.A. in History and Humanities from Villanova University, and his J.D. from The Catholic University, Columbus School of Law. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and daughter.
Blog posts by Mike Flynn
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Congress Needs to Get Export Controls Right
April 20, 2026
The House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) is scheduled to hold the largest markup of export control legislation in the committee's history this week, with over twenty bills on the agenda. While export ...
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The Unintended Consequence of the Chip Security Act
February 27, 2026
Next week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider the Chip Security Act (S.1705/H.R.3447), which would require companies to track exported AI chips. While there are valid commercial reasons ...
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91快活林 Spotlight: The Biden Administration鈥檚 Outbound Investment Reports Emphasize Importance of Principles-Based Approach
March 16, 2023
The U.S. government has no more important responsibility than to protect the nation鈥檚 security. The United States should continue to pursue this commitment while staying true to the values of free enterprise ...
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Cyber Incident Reporting Demands an Interoperable, Global Approach
March 18, 2022
On March 15, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill into law, which included innovative provisions that introduce new cyber incident reporting obligations for critical infrastructure ...
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Taking a Closer Look at Cybersecurity Incident Reporting
June 16, 2021
Recent cybersecurity incidents, notably the sophisticated nation-state backed supply chain compromise of SolarWinds and the profoundly disruptive ransomware attack of the Colonial Pipeline, have placed ...