The Week Ahead: Senate Homeland schedules vote for CISA nominee Plankey; cyber webinar with telecom stakeholders

The Senate Homeland Security Committee is expected to vote this week on the nomination of Sean Plankey to serve as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, while telecom stakeholders discuss the current state of cybersecurity in a webinar co-hosted by Inside Cybersecurity and USTelecom.

The Wednesday business meeting in the Senate Homeland Security Committee follows a July 24 hearing where Plankey was asked questions about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, budget cuts and election...