Trump’s cyber czar pick grilled over CISA cuts: ‘If we have a cyber 9/11, you’re the guy’

Plus: Plankey’s confirmation process ‘temporarily delayed’

Sean Cairncross, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as national cyber director, doubled down on taking offensive cyber actions against foreign adversaries during a Senate homeland security committee nomination hearing on Thursday, and refused to condemn the president’s proposed cuts to the main US cyber defense agency.…

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