WATCH: Joe Biden hires 'world class' cybersecurity team to avoid future hacks By The team he enlisted has deep cyber expertise and knowledge in the area Cybersecurity was demoted as a policy field under the Trump administration WASHINGTON: In a bid to ensure the US government recovers from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies by Russian spies, President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise and knowledge in the area. “It is great to see the priority that the new administration is giving to cyber,” said Suzanne Spaulding, director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.