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New Biden nominees to top Hill’s cyber to-do list 04/12/2021 10:00 AM EDT Editor’s Note: Weekly Cybersecurity is a weekly version of POLITICO Pro’s daily Cybersecurity policy newsletter, Morning Cybersecurity. POLITICO Pro is a policy intelligence platform that combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro. Quick Fix that will likely receive sustained oversight in the weeks ahead. — Key lawmakers still have concerns about cyber funding despite generally praising the White House’s budget request for ...

President Joe Biden on Monday announced his intent to nominate Chris Magnus, the chief of police in Tucson, Arizona and a longtime critic

By Justin Katz   The White House confirmed plans to nominate John C. Inglis and Jen Easterly to key cybersecurity roles in the Biden administration. 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 cy...

By Justin Katz   Christopher Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is continuing to call on the Biden administration to nominate someone to fill his old post, citing the job's importance in shaping the federal government's future networks. There is a "need for somebody to be setting a vision for what the federal civilian executive branch, the dot-gov, what does it look like in three to four to five years?" Krebs said on Wednesday during a virtual forum hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "How do we set budgets across the...

By Justin Katz   More than a dozen lawmakers from both parties on a key House committee are seeking information from multiple cabinet secretaries and agency chiefs that the breach involving SolarWinds Orion has had on their respective organizations. The letters sent on Wednesday by the House committee on energy and commerce were sent to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Health and Human Services Acting Secretary Norris Cochran and Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Info...