U.S. Cyber Chief in Limbo During REVil Attacks Set to Start Work

The White House plans to swear in the country’s first national cyber director Monday and the Senate expects to consider the nominee for director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, ending weeks-long delays on filling the Biden administration’s top cyber posts.

In the three weeks that the top cyber nominees were stuck in bureaucratic and political delays, the U.S. was hit by one of the largest ransomware attacks in history, affecting Kaseya Ltd.'s IT management software and more than 1,000 businesses.

Some lawmakers say the stall in moving Chris Inglis to be national cyber director and Jen Easterly ...