Sean Plankey’s path to leading the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency might have one obstacle set to be cleared for removal.With the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee scheduled to hold a vote on his nomination for CISA director Wednesday, the next and final step for Plankey pending approval from the panel would be getting a full Senate vote — something Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has vowed to block until the agency publicly releases a report on telecommunications network vulnerabilities.CISA said Tuesday that it would, in fact, release that report.“CISA intends to release the U.S. Telecommunications Insecurity Report (2022) that was developed but never released under the Biden administration in 2022, with proper clearance,” Marci McCarthy, director of public affairs at the agency, said in an emailed statement. “CISA has worked with telecommunications providers before, during, and after Salt Typhoon — sharing timely threat intelligence, providing technical support and continues to have close collaboration with our federal partners to safeguard America’s communications infrastructure.”The agency didn’t say when it would release the report, or what “proper clearance” entailed.CISA’s statement came shortly after Senate passage of legislation — without objections from any senator — that would require the release of the report within 30 days of enactment. The House would still have to pass the bill to send it to President Donald Trump for a signature.In a floor speech Monday, Wyden said “Congress and the American people deserve to read this report. It includes frankly shocking details about national security threats to our country’s phone system that require immediate action.“CISA’s multi-year cover-up of the phone companies’ negligent cybersecurity enabled foreign hackers to perpetrate one of the most serious cases of espionage — ever — against our country,” he continued. “Had this report been made public when it was first written in 2022, Congress would have had ample time to require mandatory cybersecurity standards for phone companies, in time to prevent the Salt Typhoon hacks.”A spokesperson for Wyden said Tuesday that no one from the office has heard from CISA on its plans for the report “that I know of.”The government’s response to Salt Typhoon, and the industry’s handling of its vulnerabilities, have drawn some outside criticism. Government agencies have rejected some of those complaints while acknowledging others.The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Plankey last week, where he talked about his priorities for the agency but also drew fire from a Democratic senator over his views on election manipulation in past and future races.The post CISA says it will release telecom security report sought by Sen. Wyden to lift hold on Plankey nomination appeared first on CyberScoop.