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CISA appoints new acting cyber chief after recent leadership shakeups<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/people\/2026\/03\/cisa-appoints-new-acting-cyber-chief-after-recent-leadership-shakeups\/411833\/?orefu003dng-homepage-river<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-03 12:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nChris Butera will serve as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency\u2019s acting executive assistant director for the agency\u2019s cybersecurity division, following leadership changes put into place at the agency last week.Prior CISA acting director Madhu Gottumukkala was moved to another role in DHS, while Nick Andersen \u2014 the previous\u00a0executive assistant director for the cyber division \u2014 took his place helming the agency.\u201cAs CISA\u2019s senior career cybersecurity official, he is responsible for leading the agency\u2019s mission to address the nation\u2019s most significant cyber threats and vulnerabilities and to increase the security and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure,\u201d an agency bio page for Butera says.Butera has cycled through CISA technical and leadership roles over the past two years, often during transitions. He served as the Cybersecurity Division\u2019s senior technical director before becoming acting executive assistant director in June 2025, leading the agency\u2019s cyber mission until September, when Andersen was named to the permanent post.The change comes shortly after Gottumukkala became the subject of several unflattering media reports that led up to his reassignment elsewhere in DHS.The new roles come as CISA has lost much of its workforce to a slew of efforts the Trump administration undertook in the last year to reduce purported government bloat and spending waste. Former officials and other observers have pushed back on some of those cuts.The agency continues to lose talent. Shelly Hartsook, acting associate director in CISA\u2019s cyber division, is expected to leave in the coming days, a person familiar with the matter said. The planned departure was first reported by Federal News Network.<\/p>\n

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