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Veteran of White House, DHS steps into federal CISO role News Highlights: Veteran of White House, DHS steps into federal CISO role. Biden’s administration has wasted no time appointing the new federal chief information security officer. They just didn’t tell anyone that Chris DeRusha started on January 25th. Former Office of Management and Budget officials “made the news” of DeRusha’s appointment, and DeRusha confirmed it by changing his LinkedIn page. Federal News Network further confirmed DeRusha’s new role with government sources. He replaces Camilo Sandoval, who was federal ...

Biden administration appoints Chris DeRusha as federal CISO Maggie Miller © Getty Images Biden administration appoints Chris DeRusha as federal CISO The Biden administration has picked Chris DeRusha, the former top cyber official on the Biden campaign, to fill the role of federal chief information security officer. DeRusha's appointment, first reported by CyberScoop, was made public on his LinkedIn profile on Monday night, and confirmed by acting Federal Chief Information Officer Maria Roat on Tuesday. "Welcome aboard Chris DeRusha, our new Federal CISO!" Roat tweeted. The...

Cybersecurity was demoted as a policy field under the Trump administration Reuters January 25, 2021 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise, drawing praise from former defense officials and investigators as the US  government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies. “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...

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The Cybersecurity 202: SolarWinds hack could supercharge cybersecurity lobbying spending Tonya Riley with Aaron Schaffer Cybersecurity companies spent more money on lobbying efforts in Washington in 2020. Fallout from the SolarWinds breach could cause it to explode in 2021.  Collectively, 12 large publicly-traded cybersecurity companies spent roughly $4.3 million on lobbying last year, according to an analysis of federal lobbying disclosures by The Cybersecurity 202.  That's up from $3.94 million those same companies spent in 2019, which was more than triple their coll...