{"id":47,"date":"2006-09-21T02:37:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-07-22T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T01:07:14","slug":"white-house-selects-cybersecurity-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/white-house-selects-cybersecurity-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Selects Cybersecurity Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has chosen an industry information security specialist as its cybersecurity chief, an official said Monday, filling a job that has had no permanent director for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Garcia will be nominated later this week as the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications, said a department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made. He will replace acting cybersecurity director Donald &#8220;Andy&#8221; Purdy Jr., who is a two-year contract employee on loan from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The cybersecurity job was created in July 2005, but department officials have struggled to find candidates willing to take significant pay cuts from industry jobs to fill it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has chosen an industry information security specialist as its cybersecurity chief, an official said Monday, filling a job that has had no permanent director for a year. Greg Garcia will be nominated later this week as the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications, said a department official who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}