{"id":219938,"date":"2026-03-04T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/cisa-appoints-chris-butera-as-acting-cyber-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:20:14","slug":"cisa-appoints-chris-butera-as-acting-cyber-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/cisa-appoints-chris-butera-as-acting-cyber-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"CISA Appoints Chris Butera as Acting Cyber Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/cisa-chris-butera-acting-cybersecurity-hired\">CISA Appoints Chris Butera as Acting Cyber Leader<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/cisa-chris-butera-acting-cybersecurity-hired\">https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/cisa-chris-butera-acting-cybersecurity-hired<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 16:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.executivegov.com\">www.executivegov.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has appointed\u00a0Chris Butera as acting\u00a0executive assistant director of its cybersecurity division, NextGov\/FCW reported Tuesday. He replaces Nick Andersen, who has stepped in as\u00a0acting director of CISA following\u00a0Madhu Gottumukkala\u2019s appointment as director of strategic implementation at the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Hear about the threats to federal systems and the strategies that keep critical data safe from adversaries at the Potomac Officers Club\u2019s 2026 Cyber Summit on May 21. The event will bring together government and industry leaders to discuss the increasing role of cyberspace in global conflict. Secure your tickets today.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_Is_Chris_Butera\"\/>Who Is Chris Butera?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p>Butera has more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and information technology leadership across federal and local government and the private sector. Most recently, he served as senior technical director for CISA\u2019s cybersecurity division, where he led initiatives to enhance cyber services, strengthen operational visibility and guide research and development related to artificial intelligence and industrial control systems security.<\/p>\n<p>He also held the roles of associate director of threat hunting, deputy director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center and chief of the NCCIC Hunt and Incident Response Team at CISA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Butera holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science from the University of Notre Dame and a master\u2019s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Other_Leadership_Shifts_Are_Happening_at_CISA\"\/>What Other Leadership Shifts Are Happening at CISA?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p>Robert Costello, chief information officer at CISA, also announced that he is departing federal service. In a LinkedIn post Tuesday, Costello said the week marks his last at the agency after 23 years in government, including 18 years at the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDHS safeguards the American people every day, often without recognition. I have seen firsthand the dedication across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/cisa-chris-butera-acting-cybersecurity-hired\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CISA Appoints Chris Butera as Acting Cyber Leader https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/articles\/cisa-chris-butera-acting-cybersecurity-hired Publish Date: 2026-03-04 16:42:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chris-butera-cisa-cybersecurity-leader-appointment.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-219938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219940,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219938\/revisions\/219940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}