Rob Joyce is the new NSA Cyber Director

The U.S. National Security Agency has appointed Rob Joyce as the agency’s new director of cybersecurity, who has long experience in US cybersecurity

The National Security Agency (NSA) has appointed US cybersecurity official Rob Joyce as the new chief of the Cybersecurity Directorate. Joyce served as the NSA’s top representative in the UK since 2018, he is the successor of Anne Neuberger, who recently appointed Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology for the National Security Council (NSC). Neuberger was the director of the directorate since its creation in 2019.

Joyce also served as senior advisor to the NSA director on cybersecurity strategy.

Joyce has previously held other roles at the NSA, including chief of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), now Computer Network Operations, which is a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the National Security Agency (NSA).

Rob Joyce also served as deputy director of the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD).

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, NSA)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.