National Cyber Director’s mission to fill strategic gaps, relationship with other offices come into focus

The role of a new National Cyber Director in relation to other senior cybersecurity officials is coming into sharper focus as the Biden administration unfurls multiple cyber initiatives and senators move closer to confirming Chris Inglis to serve as the first NCD and Jen Easterly as CISA Director.

“No one’s been doing what the NCD should be doing,” commented Mark Montgomery, senior advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and a senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Creating...