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Sean Cairncross

Sean Plankey
Sean Plankey speaks at a Department of Energy event in 2018, while he was a cyber adviser at BP. (Argonne National Laboratory / Flickr)

Sean Plankey picked by Trump to be CISA director 

Plankey’s nomination fills the biggest remaining gap among cyber leaders in the second Trump administration.
Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, accompanied by Sean Cairncross, then-CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, tours ISMALA, a Moroccan institute specializing in aeronautic industries and civil aviation logistics in Casablanca with its director Loubna Tricha on November 8, 2019. (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump picks Sean Cairncross for national cyber director

If confirmed by the Senate, he would become just the third permanent leader of the Office of the National Cyber Director.
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