This is a big loss for CISA, which hired Masterson in 2018 after House Speaker Paul Ryan blocked his reappointment to the Election Assistance Commission.
Election officials widely praised Masterson for helping improve the relationship between them and the federal government.
.@mastersonmv confirms to me that he is leaving CISA, as first reported by @dnvolz.
Masterson, a senior cyber adviser working on election security at CISA, is leaving to join @stanfordio.
"I will be working on documenting what worked and didn’t work around election security and figuring out where we go from here on disinformation," Masterson tells me.
Deleted this tweet.
Masterson *is* a Schedule C employee and thus fireable by Trump, but there are others at the agency, per a spokesperson.
I rechecked my notes from conversations with current and former CISA officials and realized I'd misinterpreted them.
My apologies.
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NSC mtg of Cyber Response Group yielded some progress — govt has a list of hacked agencies, tho more could emerge — but officials still don't know what hackers stole.
"We are in very, very early days," official said, "and there's a sense that...the news is going to get worse."
The NSC CRG, following an Obama-era directive, established a Unified Coordination Group to streamline agencies' crisis collaboration.
"We're declaring this a significant cyber event," U.S. official said, using term reserved for crises such as NotPetya.
“I saw it first, and I said, ‘If this doesn’t get you fired, nothing will,’ and his response back was essentially, ‘Yeah, this might do it.’”
WH personnel office called CISA’s chief of staff on Veterans' Day to tell her that WH was going to ask for CISA Assistant Director for Cybersecurity Bryan Ware’s resignation, Travis says.
"We...pressed that it would be silly to change the CISA team” during election & OWS.
CISA's chief of staff asked the WH if Ware was the only one, Travis says. His understanding, he says, is that the answer at that time was yes.
Got some thoughts about Friday's #TheMandalorian episode, but first: Disney shouldn't have hired an actress who was sued for transphobic harassment.
The lawsuit was dismissed, but that doesn't necessarily mean much when the defendant is a celebrity.
Avoidable blunder here.
Transgender people endure constant abuse simply because of who they are, and Disney/Lucasfilm's refusal to even acknowledge their anger is a disappointing act of corporate cowardice that casts doubt on their oft-stated commitment to inclusion.
Transgender SW fans deserve better.
As for the episode, I really liked how Favreau and Filoni adapted Ahsoka for live-action — probably one of their most challenging tasks so far, given fan expectations. She looked great, and I loved how she moved like a wraith during the fight scenes. Overall, very impressive.
Justice Thomas asked Van Buren's lawyer if he has any real-world examples of the slippery slope argument that CFAA critics have been making in the 11th Circuit, where courts have followed the government's reading of the law for a while.
Van Buren's counsel says no, but references cases in other circuits, including one where someone was prosecuted for “misusing MySpace" and another one involving Ticketmaster.
I've spent the day talking to former colleagues of Biden DHS secretary nominee Alejandro Mayorkas about his work on cybersecurity.
The consensus is that, while he'll be working a lot on immigration, he'll also do great work on cyber.
"Ali is an outstanding choice to be the secretary, and he will really be able to hit the ground running," @SpauldingSez told me. "He was very much involved in some of our most important efforts" as depsec.
Fmr DHS official: "Cyber was probably his #2 [issue] behind immigration."