Microsoft corporate Vice President Tom Burt said on Friday that US President Joe Biden, has appointed world-class cybersecurity experts at leadership positions, according to Reuters . The U.S. government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies.
"It is great to see the priority that the new administration is giving to cyber," said Suzanne Spaulding, director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Meanwhile, under a recent law, Biden must open a cyber-focused office reporting to a new National Cyber Director, who will coordinate the federal government's vast cyber capabilities, said Mark Montgomery, a former congressional staffer who helped design the role.
On other hand, the White House has chosen the NSA’s Anne Neuberger for a newly created Deputy National Security Adviser role in the National Security Council. She’s best known for leading the NSA’s cyberdefense pision and alerting companies to foreign hackers’ techniques.
Other Council additions are cybersecurity gurus, including Michael Sulmeyer as senior director for cyber, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall as Homeland Security adviser, Russ Travers as deputy Homeland Security adviser and Caitlin Durkovich as senior director for resilience and response.
Noteworthy, Cybersecurity was demoted as a policy field under the Donald Trump administration. It discontinued the Cybersecurity Coordinator position at the White House, shrunk the State Department's cyber diplomacy wing, and fired federal cybersecurity leader Chris Krebs in the aftermath of Trump's Nov. 3 election defeat.
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