Trump nominates Sean Plankey to run top US cyber agency therecord.media/plankey-n…

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, a United States Coast Guard veteran, also deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 in his role as a weapons and tactics branch chief at U.S. Cyber Command. He earned a Bronze Star for his work conducting offensive cyber operations during his time there, serving as deputy officer in charge of the expeditionary cyber support element. Until last month, Plankey worked as the general manager and global head of cybersecurity software for Indigo Vault, a post-quantum encryption document protection platform.