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Cyber Ambassador Nominee Outlines Near-Term Priorities

Cyber Ambassador Nominee Outlines Near-Term Priorities
Nathaniel Fick, President Joe Biden's nominee to be Ambassador-at-Large for the Department of State's Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. LinkedIn photo.

The Biden administration’s pick to be the nation’s first ambassador for cyberspace on Wednesday said his initial priorities are to create a culture of cyber and digital expertise within the State Department, to ensure the department is an equal participant within the government on cyber and digital policy matters and finally to deal with pressing cybersecurity challenges globally. U.S. leadership in technology is “critical” to promoting “our values, to sustaining our economic strength and to our national security,” Nathaniel Fick,…

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