Kevin Powers is the Faculty Director and Lecturer-in-Law for the Master of Legal Studies (MLS) in Cybersecurity, Risk & Governance at Boston College Law School. Previously, Powers founded and directed the Master of Science (MS) in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance Programs at Boston College, where he served as an Assistant Professor of the Practice at Boston College Law School and in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management’s Business Law and Society Department. Along with his teaching at Boston College, Powers is a Cybersecurity Research Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Lecturer for MIT Sloan’s Executive Education Program – “Cybersecurity Governance for the Board of Directors.” He also taught courses at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was the Deputy General Counsel to the Superintendent.
With more than 25 years of combined cybersecurity, data privacy, business, law enforcement, military, national security, higher education, and teaching experience, Powers has worked as an analyst and an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense, and law firms in Boston and Washington, D.C., as well as the general counsel for an international software company based in Seattle, Washington.
Outside of his work at BC Law, Powers serves as an expert witness and consultant with the Analysis Group and serves as the Chair of the Board of Trustees for Boston College High School, a Director for the Board of Reading Cooperative Bank, and a Cybersecurity Advisor for HYCU, Inc. (Backed by Bain Capital Ventures), Acium, Inc., and CyberSaint Security. Powers served as a member of the Boston College Law School Business Advisory Council (2018-2023) and as the Panel Lead (2016-2017) for the Collegiate Working Group for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE).
Powers, a Navy Veteran, regularly provides expert commentary regarding technology, data privacy, artificial intelligence (AI), and cyber and national security for local, national, and international media outlets.
