Venable has announced that senior director for White House cybersecurity Ari Schwartz will join the firm as managing director of cybersecurity services. Previously, he served as a senior policy advisor to three Commerce Department secretaries on developing voluntary cybersecurity standards in accordance with the administration’s executive order. Schwartz also served as a senior Internet policy adviser at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Commerce Department and as a senior policy analyst at the Center for Effective Government.