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Homeland Security

Trump Appoints DHS Cyber Policy Chief To Cyber Job At CISA

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, December 18th, 2019

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Trump Appoints DHS Cyber Policy Chief To Cyber Job At CISA

Bryan Ware, assistant director for Cybersecurity at CISA. LinkedIn photo.

President Trump on Wednesday announced his intent to appoint Bryan Ware, who is currently in charge of cyber, infrastructure and resiliency policy at the Department of Homeland Security, to be the new assistant director for cyber security within the department’s agency responsible for working with the federal government and private sector on boosting the nation’s overall cyber security posture. Ware will succeed Jeanette Manfra, the current assistant director for Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) when she…

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