Ellis was first tapped for the position in early November, just two days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election and in the midst of a political purge of different agencies, including the Department of Defense. The Pentagon declined to comment. This story was first reported by the Washington Post.
But Ellis' installation stalled, according to the Washington Post, because of administrative procedures, including the need for a polygraph test, leaving Miller to push for it in the waning days of Trump's four years in office. Read More. Mark Warner and Jack Reed requested an investigation from the Pentagon's acting inspector general, saying in a letter, "The combination of timing, comparative lack of experience of the candidate, the reported qualifications of the other finalists, and press accounts of White House involvement create a perception that political influence or considerations may have played an undue role in a merit-based civil service selection process.
Before joining the Trump administration, Ellis served as the head counsel to California Rep. Devin Nunes, one of Trump's staunchest supporters. Ellis then became a lawyer with the National Security Council, refusing to testify as part of the House's impeachment inquiry.
In March , Ellis became the senior director for intelligence on the NSC, joining other Trump loyalists in key intelligence positions. But to truly measure up against the scope of the cyber threat to healthcare and all industries, "I just think we've got to have a different model," he said. We've got the government and the private sector. We've got to team together 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He acknowledged, "You can't do this at scale across every business within the private sector. But can't we start with a few sectors where the risks to our economy, to the safety and wellbeing of our citizens, to the security of our nation?
Let's pick a few areas, and do some test cases, and see if a different model might produce a different result. There are some "great examples out there where we have applied a government and private-sector model and achieved some amazing results," said Rogers. For instance, he said, "We decided as a society that the potential loss of literally hundreds of people in an aviation accident represented such a risk that we needed to do something different," he said.
It partners with the airplane manufacturer, the airline that operated the aircraft, the union, et cetera. It pores over all the maintenance records. It pores over the production history of the aircraft. It looks at all the software and the hardware.
It looks at how it was operated. It determines the cause of the crash. Sometimes we're going to change production. We're going to change the way we do software. We're going to change how the aircraft is operating. While we have aviation accidents, they tend not to be recurring patterns, the same cause over and over. Compare that with cybersecurity, where we've been seeing the same techniques used by the bad guys "working over and over and over," he said.
The pain of the one is not shared. We don't learn from it. And so it is repeated over and over and over again. We have got to change that dynamic. Admiral Michael S. Skip to main content. Global Edition. Former NSA director: U. Rogers, who also served as commander of the U.
Cyber Command, says the government and private sector must work more closely and collaboratively. By Mike Miliard July 16, When asked by Mandia if she believed the U.
While Nakasone was pessimistic about the future of ransomware attacks, he expressed optimism around the national attention on cybersecurity and the talent pool working for the government, following a tough year of attacks. View the discussion thread. Skip to main content.
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