US cybersecurity agency to get new acting director
The nominee to serve as CISA director has not yet received a hearing.
The agency tasked with protecting the nation's cyber and critical infrastructure is getting a new leader.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) is making changes to the leadership at the agency.
The current acting CISA Administrator Madhu Gottumukkala is taking a new role as director of strategic implementation, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.
The new acting director, Nick Anderson, will serve as the acting director of CISA. Anderson is the current executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA.
A DHS official said that "Gottumukkala has done a remarkable job in a thankless task of helping reform CISA back to its core statutory mission."
"As part of Secretary Noem's broader efforts to stop waste, fraud and abuse, which has already saved Americans $13 billion, Mr. Gottumukkala will now be serving at DHS as the Director of Strategic Implementation where he will continue his work to save taxpayer money," the official said.
The White House has nominated Sean Plankey to serve as the director of CISA, but has so far not received a hearing.