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CISA to make comprehensive staff cuts in coming days, people familiar say
The nation’s premier cybersecurity agency, which sits in the Department of Homeland Security, has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs for some time.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is expected to initiate efforts aimed at significantly reducing its workforce in the coming days, including vast cuts to its industry contracting teams, according to four people familiar with the moves. CISA was created in November 2018, when a law signed by President Donald Trump transformed the National Protection and Programs Directorate in DHS into a component with more broad authority for handling cybersecurity threats and infrastructure security. “CISA needs to be much more effective, smaller, more nimble, to really fulfill their mission, which is to hunt and to help harden our nation’s critical infrastructure,” she said in January, noting that the agency’s work should be “refocused” away from tapering mis- and dis-information online.
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