Tim Starks

Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. His previous stops include working at The Washington Post, POLITICO and Congressional Quarterly. An Evansville, Ind. native, he’s covered cybersecurity since 2003. Email Tim here: tim.starks@cyberscoop.com.

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Dems want watchdog study of two troubled federally-funded vulnerability tracking initiatives

Government

Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, arrives before the start of a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in January of 2024. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

House Homeland Chairman Mark Green’s departure could leave congressional cyber agenda in limbo

Policy

House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Amodei, R-Nev., questions acting FEMA Administrator Cam Hamilton at a hearing on May 7. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M

Money

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to guests from South Portico of the White House during an event on the South Lawn on June 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump held the “Summer Soirée” for guests including staff, cabinet members and supporters to visit the grounds and enjoy the recent onset of summer heat. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump cyber executive order takes aim at prior orders, secure software, identity

Government

Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, walks with Sean Cairncross, then-CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, through the alleys of Rabat’s Old city on Nov. 7, 2019. (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Sean Cairncross has policy coordination in mind if confirmed as national cyber director

Workforce

(L-R) Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Tex., Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. and Rep. Andrew Garbarino R-N.Y. listen during a hearing with the House Committee on Homeland Security on Jan. 30, 2024. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Rep. Garbarino: Ending CISA mobile app security program for feds sends ‘wrong signal’

Policy

Then-Millenium challenge corporation CEO Sean Cairncross speaks during a ceremony on Aug. 5, 2019 at the presidential palace in Abidjan. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Experts endorse Sean Cairncross for national cyber director ahead of Senate hearing

Government

Cynthia Kaiser speaks at the Trellix Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 27, 2024. (Scoop News Group)

Top FBI cyber official Cynthia Kaiser exits for Halcyon

Government

With Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., by his side, President Donald Trump speaks to the press following a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 20. Trump joined conservative House lawmakers to help push through their budget bill after it advanced through the House Budget Committee. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump budget proposal would slash more than 1,000 CISA jobs

Election Security