Cybersecurity
Cyber threats, election security, and protection of digital infrastructure.
2026
7 items2025
13 items2024
2 items2023
1 item2021
2 items
People
Key figures in Cybersecurity
83 figures
Joe Biden
Former President
Donald Trump
President of the United States, 2025–present
Gary Peters
Senate Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member (D-MI)
Kristi Noem
Secretary of Homeland Security (2025)
Jen Easterly
Former CISA Director (2021–January 2025)
Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-OR), senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Sean Plankey
Trump's CISA Director-nominee; retired Coast Guard officer; removed from DHS senior adviser role
Alejandro Mayorkas
Secretary of Homeland Security
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic, 2025–present
Madhu Gottumukkala
CISA Acting Director (May 2025 – late February 2026); reassigned to DHS cost-cutting review
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and CEO, Meta Platforms, 2025–present
Rick Scott
U.S. Senator (R-FL)
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI, 2025–present
A. Tysen Duva
Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Criminal Division
Adam Gordon
U.S. Attorney, Southern District of California
Al Schmidt
Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth
Alexandr Wang
Founder and CEO, Scale AI; Meta AI adviser, 2026
Amazon Web Services
Amazon cloud computing division (AWS)
American Civil Liberties Union
Civil liberties advocacy organization
Andrew Garbarino
U.S. Representative (R-NY), Chair, House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity
Andy Baker
Deputy National Security Advisor
Angus King
U.S. Senator (I-ME), member of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Antony Blinken
Former Secretary of State
Barack Obama
Biden
President, Signed the NDAA into law on December 23, 2024
Brendan Carr
FCC Chairman (2025)
Brent Daniels
Assistant Director of Field Operations, U.S. Secret Service
Bridget Bean
CISA executive director
Bureau of the Fiscal Service
Chris Krebs
Former CISA Director (fired November 2020)
Christopher G. Raia
FBI Co-Deputy Director
Christopher Wray
FBI Director
CISA
Congress
David Sacks
Former White House AI and Crypto Czar (special government employee, Jan–Mar 2026); Co-Chair, President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST), Mar 2026–present; General Partner, Craft Ventures
Department of Homeland Security
DOGE
Dr. Radha Plumb
Pentagon Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (April 2024 - January 2025)
Elon Musk
Founder and CEO, xAI; owner, X (formerly Twitter), 2025–present
Eric Trager
Former NSC Senior Director for Middle East
federal agencies
Gen. Christopher Mahoney
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (since October 2025)
Heith Janke
Assistant Director, FBI Criminal Division
IRGC Cyber Units (APT33 / APT34)
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps state-sponsored hacking groups
Jeanine Ferris Pirro
U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia
Jeffrey Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic
John Moolenaar
House China Committee Chairman
John Ratcliffe
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
John Thune
U.S. Senate Majority Leader (R-SD)
Joshua Rudd
General, Director of the NSA, Commander of U.S. Cyber Command (confirmed March 10, 2026)
Kathleen Clark
Government Ethics Professor, Washington University School of Law
Laura Loomer
Far-right political activist and conspiracy theorist
Lindsay James
New York Attorney General
Marco Rubio
Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor
Mark Milley
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Biden administration)
Mark Remily
Special Agent in Charge, FBI San Diego Field Office
Merav Ceren
Former NSC Director for Israel and Iran
Mike Lee
U.S. Senator (R-UT)
Mike Rogers
Representative, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee (R-AL)
Mike Rounds
U.S. Senator (R-SD), Armed Services Committee Chair
Mike Waltz
Former National Security Advisor (Jan-May 2025)
Nick Andersen
CISA Acting Director (from late February 2026); Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity
Paul Abbate
Former FBI Deputy Director; led FBI cyber division during CIRCIA drafting
Pavel Gurvich
Founder and CEO, Tenzai (cybersecurity startup)
Peter Horn
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of California
Rand Paul
U.S. Senator (R-KY), Chair of Senate Homeland Security Committee (2025)
Robert Gabriel
Deputy National Security Advisor
Roger Wicker
Senator, Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee (R-MS)
Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO
Scott Bessent
Secretary of the Treasury
Sergei Lavrov
Foreign Minister of Russia
state and local election officials
Stephen Feinberg
Deputy Secretary of Defense (Trump administration, confirmed 2025)
Sundar Pichai
Google CEO and Alphabet CEO
Thet Min Nyi
Defendant; alleged manager and recruiter, Ko Thet Company ('Pixy')
Timothy Haugh
Former Director of NSA and Commander of Cyber Command; fired April 3, 2025
Tom Cole
U.S. Representative (R-OK), Chair, House Appropriations Committee
Tom Cotton
U.S. Senator (R-AR), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Treasury Department
Tricia McLaughlin
Former DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs; wife of Strategy Group CEO Ben Yoho
Tulsi Gabbard
Director of National Intelligence
Vladimir Putin
Russian President
William Hartman
Lt. Gen., Acting Commander of Cyber Command and Acting NSA Director (April 2025 to March 2026)