May 10, 2025
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CISA Acting Director Bridget Bean categorized efforts to reorganize the agency and make budget cuts in the context of actions that would be taken at the start of any new administration, at a hearing where lawmakers questioned the agency’s activities and whether cuts to cybersecurity are a good idea right now.
A recent report from the Health Sector Coordinating Council urges CISA to play a role in working with state-level insurance regulators to encourage cyber insurance provider implementation of incentives for organizations leveraging security best practices.
Plans to reorganize the State Department would roll back work achieved over the past three years to centralize cross-sector cybersecurity work under a single bureau, according to Annie Fixler of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who recently testified at a House hearing on the subject.
House Intelligence convenes closed briefing with CISA, intelligence agencies on info-sharing efforts
The House Intelligence Committee has started work to review the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 with a May 7 closed door briefing from CISA, the FBI, the National Security Agency and the Justice Department, as the reauthorization deadline approaches.
CISA Acting Director Bridget Bean is set to testify at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing today on the fiscal 2026 budget request, where she is expected to provide updates on work achieved under her tenure leading the agency in the second Trump administration, according to prepared written testimony.
CISA is continuing to focus on its critical infrastructure mission in a new guide on safeguarding operational technology and industrial control systems against cyber attacks, published in partnership with the FBI and the Energy Department.
President Trump has picked nominees for two key positions with the potential to shape the government’s cybersecurity efforts, a former industry CISO Kirsten Davies as the next Pentagon CIO and former immigration official Robert Law to serve as DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans.