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Members, witnesses warn CISA staffing and advisory‑body losses weaken information‑sharing backbone
Summary
Lawmakers and witnesses at a House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing said reauthorizing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 should be matched with sufficient resources and restored advisory forums to ensure the statute produces usable, timely threat intelligence.
Lawmakers and witnesses at a House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing said reauthorizing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 should be matched with sufficient resources and restored advisory forums to ensure the statute produces usable, timely threat intelligence.
Representative Magaziner told the panel that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) “makes our country safer” but warned that planned budget cuts would undercut that mission: he said the administration’s fiscal 2026 proposal would cut “nearly half a billion dollars from CISA’s budget” and that reports showed plans to cut “over a thousand jobs.”
Witnesses said those staffing and funding concerns compound the effect of lost forums. Catherine Keane,…
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