Federal CISO to get second hat as National Security Council’s cyber director
Grant Schneider, the acting federal CISO who has been running the shop since his boss left just before the inauguration, is getting a second hat within the White House as a senior director for cybersecurity at the National Security Council, an administration official tells CyberScoop. Schneider will take over one of the “recently vacated senior director positions within the Cybersecurity Directorate on the NSC led by Rob Joyce,” the official said in an email. Schneider is the deputy CISO, but has been acting up since federal CISO Gregory Touhill departed in mid-January. “In order to increase synergy and alignment of national and federal cybersecurity strategy, policy, and guidance,” Schneider will continue to do his job at the Office of Management and Budget, the official added. “He will continue to lead and manage the Federal CISO team at OMB as well as the ‘Homeland’ portfolio within the NSC Cybersecurity Directorate.” That position was most recently filled […]
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