The Federal Communications Commission has secured senior Senate Intelligence Committee staffer Clete Johnson as its lead cybersecurity lawyer, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced Friday.
Johnson, who was the panel's top staffer on financial intelligence matters and the cybersecurity point-person for Sen. Jay Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), will work on addressing communications-sector weaknesses and improving the industry's security as the FCC's chief counsel for cybersecurity. He will serve in the agency's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.
"Clete Johnson's policy expertise and skills working with stakeholders in the public and private sectors will be a tremendous asset as the Commission continues its efforts to promote network reliability and address future security threats through multistakeholder processes," Wheeler said in a written statement.
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