Top CISA official exits for TSA role amid recent cyber office reductions

Ryan Donaghy, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official who held acting director roles in two of the cyberdefense agency’s divisions, is transitioning to the Transportation Security Administration, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal email viewed by Nextgov/FCW.

Donaghy most recently served as acting executive assistant director for the Infrastructure Security Division and acting assistant director of the Stakeholder Engagement Division. Both offices have undergone major workforce reductions in recent weeks.

Once hailed as a bipartisan success story, CISA — the federal government’s main civilian cyberdefense agency — has become a political flashpoint. The Trump administration has vowed to “refocus” its mission amid Republican claims that CISA helped suppress free speech through past collaborations with social media companies to counter falsehoods about elections, COVID-19 and other divisive issues.

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