Following the end of the Bush administration, Bossert was made a Nonresident Zurich Cyber Risk Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Cyber Security Initiative, a position he held until 2016. He also became president of the risk management consulting firm Civil Defense Solutions.[9]
On December 27, 2016, the Trump transition team announced that then President-elect Donald Trump intended to appoint Bossert to the post of Homeland Security Advisor (officially titled the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism), a position that would not require Senate confirmation. Bossert was officially appointed on January 20, 2017, the date of President Trump's entrance into office.[5]
On July 20, 2017, Bossert called for a comprehensive bio-defense strategy against devastating pandemics and intentional attacks, and commented that retired Admiral Tim Ziemer was contributing to the development of the strategy.[10]
On July 27, 2017, British email prankster James Linton, spear-phished Bossert into thinking he was Jared Kushner by sending an email to Bossert; he received Bossert's private email address without asking for it.[11]
Bossert resigned on April 8, 2018, the day after John R. Bolton, the newly appointed National Security Advisor, started his tenure.[12] Bossert's departure corresponded with the dissolution of the global health security team that he oversaw.[13]
On December 16, 2020, the New York Times published an opinion piece by Bossert warning that U.S. networks had been seriously compromised by Russia and had been for months.[14]
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