This agency is tasked with protecting elections from cyber attacks. If Trump wins, it could be in danger
While many Democrats would like to see CISA director Jen Easterly ramp up the focus on misinformation around the election, Republicans would prefer she stay on the sidelines. That presents a nearly impossible balancing act.
Jen Easterly’s confirmation by the Senate in July 2021 to become director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was about as smooth as Senate votes get. With a résumé that includes time in the U.S. Army, on both the National Security Council and National Security Agency, and leading Morgan Stanley’s cybersecurity division, Easterly was seen as wholly qualified and appropriately nonpartisan to lead the five-year-old agency and its 3,400 employees as only its second director.