Department of Homeland Security officials have selected Bryan S. Ware, a tech-savvy entrepreneur and holder of multiple patents, to be the department’s most senior official focused exclusively on cybersecurity, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
For the last 10 months, Ware has been a DHS assistant secretary working on policies to make critical infrastructure more resilient to hacking threats. Now, pending White House approval, Ware is set to have an even more pronounced impact on DHS’s cybersecurity work.
Ware would replace Jeanette Manfra, who is leaving for the private sector at the end of the year, as assistant director for cybersecurity at DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). It is a crucial job as CISA continues to mature as a federal agency charged with combatting cyberthreats to election systems and other critical infrastructure.
Sources familiar with Ware’s selection said the White House’s approval process is underway and that nothing is final. A CISA spokesperson declined comment.
If approved, CISA’s cybersecurity division would be getting someone with a knack for math and mining data for security uses.
Ware made a name for himself in the artificial intelligence industry before it became fashionable, founding a company in 1998 that quantified the risk of terrorist attacks to government facilities. He has worked on algorithms to support drones, and spent multiple years as an executive at data analytics company Haystax Technologies.
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