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Yesterday, federal officials discussed which cybersecurity policies should take highest priority. Two suggestions involved mandatory incident reporting and addressing the semiconductor chip shortage.

A Department of Homeland Security official suggested the department lacked critical data about ransomware attacks targeting the private sector and government agencies.

A Senate panel voted to advance three Department of Homeland Security nominees, overcoming some Republican concerns over President Joe Biden’s pick for deputy secretary.

By Justin Katz Apr 14, 2021 President Joe Biden will nominate John “Chris” Inglis, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, to become the first national cyber director, according to a statement from National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Sullivan also said the White House will nominate Jen Easterly, a veteran intelligence official, to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Inglis had a hand in establishing the new White House cyber position as a memb...

Dive Brief: President Joe Biden nominated Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Monday, according to confirmation from White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Easterly is a managing director at Morgan Stanley and is head of Firm Resilience and the Fusion Resilience Center.  She previously served as the global head of its Cybersecurity Fusion Center. Reported frontrunner to the CISA director role, Rob Silvers, was named as the u...

Biden picks vocal Trump critics to lead immigration agencies Rebecca Beitsch and Rafael Bernal © Getty Images Biden picks vocal Trump critics to lead immigration agencies President Biden on Monday nominated two vocal Trump critics to fill top immigration and border policy spots in his administration. Biden pegged Tucson, Ariz., Police Chief Chris Magnus to lead Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Ur Jaddou to head United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)...

Immigration: Joe Biden to name nominees to lead two key agencies CNN 1 hr ago By Priscilla Alvarez, Kevin Liptak and Geneva Sands, CNN © Getty Images U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents look on as an undocumented man is received by a Mexican immigration agent at a removal gate of the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is nearing a partial shutdown as the agencys funding is...

Biden to name nominees to lead two key immigration agencies President Joe Biden plans to nominate Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus to serve as commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection and Ur Jaddou to serve as director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to four sources familiar with the selections. Jaddou has been widely speculated as the incoming head of USCIS, which oversees the US legal immigration system. She was formerly chief counsel at the agency unde...

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich discusses new lawsuit over the presidents border policies on Fox & Friends. President Biden will tap Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus as nominee to head U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday, when he is slated to announce nominations for several top immigration and Department of Homeland Security roles, a White House official confirmed to Fox News. Magnus currently serves as the chief of police for the City of Tucson and previously spe...

Inglis will be nominated to serve in the newly created cyber czar position on the same day Biden will nominate Jen Easterly, another former NSA official, to serve as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation’s lead agency involved in protecting critical infrastructure from attacks.  “Today, President Biden took another important step forward in strengthening our nation’s cyber capability,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan ADVERTISEM...