US Senate Approves Jen Easterly as CISA Director
July 21, 2021
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Jen Easterly speaking at a New America Foundation event (Photo: New America via Flickr/CC)
The Senate unanimously approved Jen Easterly to serve as director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency via a Monday voice vote following weeks of delays and political infighting.
CISA has been without a Senate-approved director since November 2020, when former President Donald Trump fired Christopher Krebs following the U.S. presidential election. Since that time, the cybersecurity agency has been led by Brandon Wales in an acting capacity.
While Easterly s nomination was approved in June by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has oversight over CISA, the final vote was delayed by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., who threatened to hold up a number of the administration s nominees in the Department of Homeland Security until President Jo