CISA gets new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will soon have a new second-in-command.

Madhu Gottumukkala has been named deputy director. He comes over to CISA from his prior position in the South Dakota government, where Kristi Noem was most recently governor before taking over as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Gottumukkala had been commissioner of the Bureau of Information and Telecommunication (BIT) and state chief information officer.

He’ll leave BIT on May 16. A CISA spokesperson confirmed that Gottumukkala would become deputy director of the agency.

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