The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will have a new lead official charged with coordinating the agency’s election security efforts.
Caitlin Conley, who serves as a senior advisor to Director Jen Easterly, will be taking on “additional responsibilities” that include “spearhead[ing] CISA’s partnership, engagement and coordination efforts with election officials across the nation.”
Conley, a former U.S. Army operations officer, joined CISA in April after a two-year stint on the White House National Security Council. She previously worked as executive director for the Defending Digital Democracy Project at Harvard University and the Belfer Center, which researches strategies, tools and technologies that can protect elections from cyber attacks, disinformation and other threats that seek to undermine confidence in democratic processes and systems.
