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Trump nominates Sean Plankey as new CISA director


Plankey, if approved by the Senate, will serve as CISA's third director.

President Donald Trump nominated Sean Plankey to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), according to a White House email sent to journalists on Tuesday. In 2013, Plankey gave cybersecurity support to U.S. forces deployed in Afghanistan, then worked at U.S. Cyber Command, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the U.S. Navy. He also worked in the previous Trump administration as a director for cyber policy on the White House’s National Security Council and later at the Department of Energy, according to Plankey’s LinkedIn.

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