SECURITY
GAO warns of 'unclear' White House cyber leadership
A government watchdog has found that Trump administration cybersecurity policies need "urgent" coordination and leadership overhauls, according to a pair of reports issued yesterday.
Christian Vasquez
Reporter
Christian covers cybersecurity for Energywire. He previously worked at POLITICO as a digital producer and before that as a cybersecurity intern during the 2018 midterm elections. Christian graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2018, where he majored in multimedia journalism.
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