House appropriators on Tuesday challenged proposed budget cuts for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, with Democrats saying the Trump administration was disturbingly moving money away from the agency and a key Republican saying he needed to see justifications for the reductions. The Trump administration has proposed cutting CISA funding by $491 million, and some…
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Trump administration proposes cutting $491M from CISA budget
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget proposal would slash $491 million from the budget of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, according to a summary released Friday. That would amount to a nearly 17% reduction to the agency’s approximately $3 billion budget. The administration did not release a detailed itemization of the cuts, only an…
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Congressional officials wonder how CISA can carry out core mission in face of workforce cuts
SAN FRANCISCO – In her appearance at the RSAC 2025 Conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spoke about getting CISA back to its “core mission” of protecting federal networks and critical infrastructure from cybersecurity threats. Other cyber policy experts wonder how that is going to unfold with such concentration on cutting CISA’s workforce. Congressional staffers…
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DHS Secretary Noem: CISA needs to get back to ‘core mission’
SAN FRANCISCO — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem outlined her plans Tuesday to refocus the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on protecting critical infrastructure from increasingly sophisticated threats — particularly from China — while distancing the agency from what she characterized as mission drift under previous leadership. Speaking at the 2025 RSAC Conference, Noem…
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Exclusive: Peters, Rounds tee up bill to renew expiring cyber threat information sharing law
A bipartisan pair of senators are kicking off the race Wednesday to reauthorize a 2015 cyber threat information sharing law, a move that industry groups and cyber experts are eager to see happen before it’s set to expire in September. Advocates say the 10-year-old Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has been vital to sharing threat information…
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Rep. Swalwell demands Hill briefing on planned CISA personnel cuts
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency must brief Congress on proposed deep cuts to agency personnel, a top Democrat said in a letter to its acting director. California Rep. Eric Swalwell, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, wrote in the letter to acting Director Bridget Bean on Thursday…
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How DHS is working to continually improve the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program
Department of Homeland Security officials in charge of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) have pushed the program to evolve from a compliance-focused initiative to a real-time threat detection and response platform. First launched in 2013, the program is now tracking approximately 6.5 million devices, which includes operational technology…
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Amid personnel turmoil at cyber agencies, a government shutdown could increase potential harm
A potential government shutdown looms by the end of this week if Congress doesn’t pass legislation to keep funding the federal government, a development that could worsen problems cyber personnel and agencies are experiencing under the second Trump administration, experts say. Many cyber feds would likely be exempt from furloughs during a government shutdown, common…
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CISA completed its election security review. It won’t make the results public
When the Trump administration began sidelining and laying off personnel at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, it started by targeting employees who worked on election security and disinformation. At the same time, the Department Homeland Security announced it would conduct a comprehensive review of CISA’s election security mission. This week, the agency confirmed that…
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DHS says CISA won’t stop looking at Russian cyber threats
The Department of Homeland Security said that its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will continue to pay attention to Russian cyber threats, contrary to media reports suggesting the opposite. The Guardian reported last week that a recent CISA memo setting out priorities for the agency didn’t list Russia among them, while including Chinese threats and…
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Cyber workforce legislation vote gives rise to partisan rift on House Homeland Security Committee
A partisan divide opened Wednesday over a bill to bolster the cyber workforce, legislation that earned unanimous support in the House Homeland Security Committee last year but that Democrats are now wary of under President Donald Trump. Under the legislation, students at technical schools and community colleges would receive scholarships in return for two years…
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A major cybersecurity law is expiring soon — and advocates are prepping to push Congress for renewal
A push is gearing up to renew an expiring 10-year-old cybersecurity law that was viewed at its initial passage as the most significant cybersecurity legislation Congress had ever passed, and that advocates say now fosters several important threat-sharing initiatives. The 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act provides safeguards for companies that voluntarily share threat intelligence data…
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Purging cyber review board was ‘a great idea,’ DHS deputy secretary nominee says
Expelling all members of an independent federal cybersecurity advisory panel as it was investigating Salt Typhoon was necessary due to previous leadership and the board “going in the wrong direction,” President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. Troy Edgar, who is serving as a senior adviser to…
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CISA election, disinformation officials placed on administrative leave, sources say
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency placed several members of its election security group on administrative leave last week, multiple sources familiar with the situation told CyberScoop. According to one source, the moves happened Thursday and Friday of last week and were targeted at employees focused on CISA’s mis-, dis- and malinformation teams. The moves…
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Trump pauses on grants, aid leaves federal cyber programs in state of confusion
A series of Trump administration maneuvers to freeze federal aid has thrown cybersecurity grant programs into doubt for recipients ranging from state governments to small businesses to foreign allies. An Office of Management and Budget memo sent Monday and that went into effect Tuesday directs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations…
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Removal of Cyber Safety Review Board members sparks alarm from cyber pros, key lawmaker
The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee and a number of cyber professionals on Wednesday lamented the Trump administration’s decision to purge a cyber incident investigation board of its membership. But the move had some supporters, including the chairman of that same committee. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued a…
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Noem: No anti-disinformation, misinformation action under her as DHS secretary
Department of Homeland Security secretary nominee Kristi Noem committed to senators Friday that if confirmed she would keep the department out of efforts to combat disinformation and misinformation, and pledged to make the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “smaller, more nimble.” The South Dakota governor’s remarks signal that the incoming Trump administration will act on…
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Restoring U.S. cyber resilience: A blueprint for the new administration
As the incoming Trump administration prepares to take office, it confronts a critical juncture for cybersecurity. The escalating digital threats from state-sponsored adversaries like China, Iran, North Korea and Russia coincide with fractured global governance and a shifting domestic policy landscape. This moment presents a unique opportunity for the administration to establish itself as a…