FDD sees potential cyber coordination issues under State Dept. reorganization plan

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.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s reorganization plan “goes against what Congress specifically did, which was integrate those components together,” Fixler told Inside Cybersecurity.

The Biden administration announced the creation of the Cyberspace and Digital...