The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Nov. 20 approved his nomination on a voice vote. It’s unclear when the full Senate will vote on Johnson’s nomination. Johnson would become the fourth Homeland Security secretary, succeeding Janet Napolitano. He pledged to fix internal cybersecurity problems at DHS before seeking further authority to have the department help other federal civilian agencies in getting their IT security houses in order (see Johnson Pledges InfoSec Fixes) A Government Accountability Office report in September revealed that one in five mission-critical cybersecurity-related jobs at a key DHS unit were vacant.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/senate-panel-oks-johnson-to-lead-dhs-a-6238