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Cyber

CISA Needs To Be Non-Partisan, Easterly Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021

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CISA Needs To Be Non-Partisan, Easterly Says

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: DHS

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is not political and must be a non-partisan agency because cybersecurity isn’t political, the head of the agency said on Wednesday. CISA Director Jen Easterly said she is an Independent, noting her previous work in the presidential administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Easterly was appointed by President Biden earlier this year to lead the agency. “At the end of the day, I believe very strong that this agency needs to…

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