Security News > 2021 > July > New CISA Director Confirmed, White House Gains Cyber-Director

Jen Easterly, former NSA official and Morgan Stanley vet, will take up the lead at CISA as the ransomware scourge rages on.

The U.S. has made a key move to shore up its cybersecurity strategy, with the confirmation of Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Monday.

Easterly, a former official at the National Security Agency from 2011 to 2013 and two-time Bronze Star winner, fills the empty position left by Chris Krebs, who was fired from the post under then-President Trump in 2020.

Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, will be responsible for communicating and coordinating cybersecurity policy across Congress, federal agencies and the White House, according to reports.

The perfect leader for an increasingly important agency.

Ransomware has become so endemic that President Biden has made combatting it a piece of his foreign-policy dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, given that many of the financially motivated gangs behind ransomware are headquartered in former Soviet Bloc countries.

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