Lord previously served as the first chief security officer at the Democratic National Committee in 2018, where he worked to boost campaign cybersecurity in the wake of the 2016 breaches of the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign by Russian hackers, like implementing digital security guidelines for campaigns to follow ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Both Lord and Zabierek wrote that they were grateful to work on CISA’s Secure by Design initiative, its sweeping effort to hold tech companies accountable for the cascading harms of poorly designed products and vulnerable software. Bob Lord, who joined CISA as a senior technical advisor in 2022, wrote on LinkedIn Monday morning that he had “made the difficult decision” to leave the agency. Prior to joining Recorded Future News in 2021, he spent more than five years at Politico, where he covered digital and national security developments across Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community. “This was not an easy choice, as service to the nation has been the cornerstone of my career, from my time in uniform, to my years in the intelligence community, and now as a senior advisor at the nation’s cyber defense agency,” she wrote. President Donald Trump has nominated Sean Plankey, a former top Energy Department and National Security Council official, to serve as director of CISA, but his nomination is currently blocked by Sen. Bob Lord previously held top security roles at the Democratic National Committee, Twitter and Yahoo. Minutes later, Lauren Zabierek, a CISA senior advisor, announced on her LinkedIn page that she is resigning from her role. Two senior officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced they were leaving the organization.
This Cyber News was published on therecord.media. Publication date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:59:05 +0000