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The White House finally moved to fill two of the remaining and most important technology leadership roles in government.
President Joe Biden said yesterday he plans to nominate Chris Inglis, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, to be the new national cyber director in the White House, and Jen Easterly to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Department of Homeland Security.
Chris Inglis is the former deputy director of the National Security Agency and has been nominated to be the new national cyber director.
Biden to Nominate Former Obama NSA Deputy to Serve as Cyber Director
President Joe Biden is planning to nominate a former National Security Agency (NSA) official to serve as the national cyber director at the White House, officials said.
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security advisor, said that the president “took another important step forward in strengthening our nation’s cyber capability.”
Sullivan then went on to say that Chris Inglis will be nominated as Biden’s National Cyber Director. Jen Easterly will be nominated as the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), which is a Homeland Security agency that oversees cybersecurity for civilian government networks.
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
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“If confirmed, Chris and Jen will add deep expertise, experience and leadership to our world-class cyber team, which includes the first-ever Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger, as well as strong, crisis-tested professionals from the FBI to ODNI to the Department of Homeland Security to U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency,” Sullivan said.
White House Names National Cyber Director, CISA Chief FrankRamspott/iStock.com
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The administration also announced nominees for other Homeland Security Department leaders.
Lawmakers of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where both nominees delivered input, praised their selection Monday.
Inglis, a former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was also a member of the public-private commission and helped shape the position he’ll now fill, if confirmed. His role will involve coordinating the government’s civilian cyber defenses as well as those of private-sector critical infrastructure.
“Chris was instrumental in crafting the National Cyber Director recommendation. His wealth of experience in the highest ranks of government cyber operations and policy making ensured that our proposal was grounded in the reality of today,” wrote commission members Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, Rep. Jim Langevin, D-RI, Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and