The Trump administration’s nominee to lead an embattled cybersecurity agency pledged to narrow its work while facing blowback over his deflection of election security questions.
“I’d seek to restore CISA to its congressional authorities and focus on the missions that this body tasked it with,” Sean Plankey, tapped to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testified Thursday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The hearing on Plankey and other nominees doubled as a forum for debate on the role of CISA, whose past election security work and efforts to combat disinformation have drawn conservative scorn.
Plankey, ...