Sean Plankey, who served in cybersecurity roles in the first Trump administration, has been officially nominated to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), according to a Monday posting of nominations.
Plankey’s nomination has been sent to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for official consideration.
Plankey served as acting assistant secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response at the Department of Energy and director for maritime and pacific cybersecurity policy at the National Security Council in Trump 1.0.
In a September interview with Recorded Future News, Plankey said President Donald Trump prioritizes cybersecurity.
“The President was definitely supportive of cybersecurity issues,” he said. “We did receive a good amount of airtime.”
Plankey declined to comment.
Martin Matishak contributed reporting.
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Suzanne Smalley
is a reporter covering privacy, disinformation and cybersecurity policy for The Record. She was previously a cybersecurity reporter at CyberScoop and Reuters. Earlier in her career Suzanne covered the Boston Police Department for the Boston Globe and two presidential campaign cycles for Newsweek. She lives in Washington with her husband and three children.
