Senator holds Trump’s candidate to CISA director, citing the security of Telco “Cover Up”
Democratic Senator Ron Widan suspended the Trump administration’s nomination for the Liancki administration to head the best cyber security agency in the federal government, citing “multi -year cover -up” of security defects in American telecommunications companies.
Widan said in the notes, which was seen by Techcrunch and confirmed by the spokesperson for Senator, that he would prevent Plankeke’s nomination to occupy the position of director of the CISA and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) until the agency agreed to issue an unintended report for the year 2022, and he inspects the details of the weak security via the American communications network.
Senate bases allow any Senate member to make a unilateral nomination. Reuters, who was the first to report Widen’s arrest on the filtering of Blueck, often used the nomination – or the threat of reservation – to demand concessions from the executive branch.
Scott McConnell, CISA spokesman, referred the comment to the White House, who did not re -request Techcrunch to comment.
In the observations that were identified on Wednesday, Widen – who works for the Senate Intelligence Committee – said that his employees had previously allowed them to read the non -classified report, but the efforts made to publicly issue their results were rejected. Widan said that he appealed to the then director of Cisa Jin Elstley as well as President Joe Biden at the time to issue the report before the government’s change.
Widan said that the report is a “technical document that contains realistic information about the safety of American communications … in this way, this report contains important realistic information that the public has the right to see.”
“The multi -year cover of CISA for the security of the neglect of the phone companies has real consequences,” said Widan, referring to piracy on a large scale for American phone companies known as Salt Typhoon last year.
Widan said that the breakthroughs, which allowed the infiltrators to manipulate calls and text messages for senior US officials, was “the direct result of the failure of American telecommunications companies to follow best practices for cybersecurity … and the failure of federal agencies to hold these companies accountable.”
Soon after the SALT TYPHON penetration, Wyden made legislation aimed at calling on phone companies to implement specific cybersecurity requirements, conduct annual tests, and more.
“The federal government still does not require American phone companies to meet the minimum standards of cybersecurity,” Eden said in his remarks on Wednesday.