CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala is reassigned as DHS' director of strategic implementation; executive assistant director Nick Andersen will take over
The nominee to serve as CISA director has not yet received a hearing. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which hasn't had a full-time chief since Trump's return to office on January 20, 2025
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) scotched Plankey's confirmation in 2025, reportedly due to a Coast Guard ship-building contract.
President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) scotched Plankey's confirmation in 2025, reportedly due to a Coast Guard ship-building contract.
Source: ~1,000 people have left CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ who took a buyout offer, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third
Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration …
Memo: nearly all of CISA's top leaders, including heads of five of its six operational divisions and six of 10 regional offices, have left or are leaving in May
Most of the leaders of the agency's operating divisions and regional offices have left or will leave this month amid … Bluesky: @telecom-terrorist.com and @ericjgeller.com Bluesky: Joey Pebcak / @tele...
Former CISA Director Chris Krebs says he is resigning from SentinelOne to more freely challenge the White House, after Trump directed the DOJ to investigate him
Chris Krebs, the top cybersecurity official in Trump's first term, resigned from his private-sector job
Source: 19-year-old Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt, both DOGE engineers, are now on staff at the CISA; Coristine was briefly an intern for Neuralink
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Sources: CISA Director Jen Easterly and Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated
Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly speaks during Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2024 on February 7, 2024.
The CISA names Lisa Einstein as its first chief AI officer; Einstein has been a senior AI adviser at the agency since 2023 and helped craft CISA's AI roadmap
- She had been a senior adviser at the agency since last year, focused on AI issues — she helped craft CISA's AI roadmap …
CISA is now being led by 15-year DHS veteran Brandon Wales; source says Wales wants to keep operating CISA's Rumor Control site, which debunked election misinfo
Five months before President Donald Trump fired him, federal cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs made a key addition to his leadership team …