CyberScoop is first to report on the letter to DHS from the chair of a cybersecurity subcommittee, which also addresses CISA’s role as lead coordinator with the…

The lawmakers say the January purge has left the United States blind on the nature of the historic Salt Typhoon telecommunications breach.

Seven sources tell CyberScoop that a lack of coordination and miscommunication between federal agencies and the telecommunications industry left critical networks exposed to the Chinese hacking group.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., leveled that charge at DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at a hearing Wednesday.

He’s the latest Democrat who sits on an appropriations panel to sharply criticize CISA personnel reductions and proposed funding cuts.

The top Democrat on a cybersecurity subcommittee says the “drastic reorganization” obligates CISA’s acting director to discuss its plans with lawmakers.

The groups told lawmakers that both the committee and the law provide vital protections for cyber threat information swapping.

A series of moves from the president raises questions about what’s next for the federal government’s many cyber grant and aid initiatives.

She said at her confirmation hearing that CISA needs to be “smaller, more nimble” and it has gone “far off-mission.”

The little-populated state is seeing its governor and two senators move into key positions to influence cyber policy.