Dive Brief:
President Joe Biden nominated Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Monday, according to confirmation from White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Easterly is a managing director at Morgan Stanley and is head of Firm Resilience and the Fusion Resilience Center. She previously served as the global head of its Cybersecurity Fusion Center.
Reported frontrunner to the CISA director role, Rob Silvers, was named as the undersecretary for policy within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Between 2016 and 2017, Silvers served as the assistant secretary of homeland security for cyber policy within the Obama administration.