{"id":37628,"date":"2021-07-13T18:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37628"},"modified":"2021-07-13T18:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:39:49","slug":"jen-easterly-sworn-in-as-director-of-dhs-cyber-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37628","title":{"rendered":"Jen Easterly sworn in as director of DHS cyber agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Easterly was sworn in Tuesday as director of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), one day after the Senate unanimously approved her nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Easterly, who now leads the agency responsible for securing the nation\u2019s critical infrastructure against cyberattacks, said in a statement following her swearing-in that she is \u201cincredibly honored and humbled to join the team at CISA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have admired the agency from afar as the organization has grown over the past several years, and seen firsthand how its guidance, insight and resources can benefit public and private sector partners as part of our collective defense to build a more resilient nation,\u201d Easterly said. \u201cI thank\u00a0President Biden\u00a0for putting his faith in me to lead this organization, and the Senate for confirming me for this role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Easterly takes over leading the agency from Brandon Wales, who had served as acting director since November, when former\u00a0President Trump\u00a0fired former CISA Director Christopher Krebs after CISA pushed back against election disinformation and misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Easterly was sworn in Tuesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37629,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628\/revisions\/37629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}