Addie LaMarr is a cybersecurity expert and cryptographer with over 15 years of experience working across military, government, and private-sector security systems. She spent eight years in the United States Air Force as a cryptographer, working hands-on with secure communications, classified systems, and adversarial threat models long before “quantum risk” entered the mainstream.

After leaving the military, Addie worked in cybersecurity for the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped develop national cyber policy and contributed to guidance for NIST’s High Value Assets (HVA) program—shaping how critical government systems identify, prioritize, and defend their most sensitive infrastructure. This work placed her at the center of how trust, risk, and resilience are formally defined at a national level.

Today, Addie is the founder of LaMarr Labs, where she helps organizations and security teams navigate post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transitions before disruption becomes crisis. Drawing on her background in cryptography and systems security, she developed a quantum risk migration framework that moves beyond compliance checklists to address real-world dependencies, timelines, and power shifts introduced by quantum computing.

Driven by a lifelong obsession with cryptography, Addie’s work frames security not just as a technical challenge, but as a mechanism that determines who controls systems, data, and trust in the next computing era. Her work helps leaders prepare for a future where cryptography no longer quietly holds the world together.