HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISER SHAPED CYBER STRATEGY DESPITE FINANCIAL INTERESTS
White House officials’ stock divestments and recusals are hidden from public view, thanks to ethics law gaps and a lack of transparency from the Biden administration. Deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology Anne Neuberger and Homeland Security adviser and deputy national security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall speak at the daily press briefing at the White House WHEN HOMELAND SECURITY adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall joined the White House in January 2021, she held vested employee stock options at two growing companies in the cybersecurity industry. Cybersecurity was poised to be front and center for the Biden administration, given the massive breach of software company SolarWinds in 2020 that raised alarms about vulnerabilities in the U.S. government and economy. Sherwood-Randall signed a financial disclosure form pledging to divest her assets at Dragos and Resilience, for which she had served on the advisory boards, and had a recusal arrangement in p...