NIST officials detail impact of staff cuts on encryption and other priorities
The agency has shed more than 700 jobs since 2025, including 89 at a lab responsible for testing and validating the government’s encryption.
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Lawmakers probe CISA leader over staffing decisions
The House Homeland Security Committee grilled Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting director of the agency, over cutbacks both broad and specific.
Congressional appropriators move to extend information-sharing law, fund CISA
The legislation also includes mandates on election security funding and CISA staff levels, as well as an extension of a state and local cyber grant program.
Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill
The Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act of 2015 would go from expired to extended through Jan. 30.
Agency that provides budget data to Congress hit with security incident
Suspected foreign hackers reportedly breached Congressional Budget Office, possibly exposing communications with lawmakers.
Cyber scholarship-for-service students say government has pulled rug on them, potentially burdening them with debt
Hiring freezes, budget cuts and more are raising questions about the future of CyberCorps.
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Two-thirds of CISA personnel could be sent home under shutdown
A DHS plan estimates that it would keep nearly 900 CISA workers on the job during a lapse in federal funding.
Cyber threat information law hurtles toward expiration, with poor prospects for renewal
Short-term and long-term extensions alike for the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act have fallen by the wayside despite industry and Trump administration advocacy.
CISA work not ‘degraded’ by Trump administration cuts, top agency official says
Nick Andersen rebutted criticisms from industry, state and local governments and the Hill about where CISA capabilities stand.
The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could bring to cybersecurity
Good, bad, puzzling — a March order and June order could have bigger ripples than realized when the president signed them.