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The Top Cybersecurity Agency in the US Is Bracing for Donald Trump
- Donald Trump helped create the US government’s cybersecurity agency during his first term as president. Six years later, employees of that agency are afraid of what he’ll do with it once he retakes office.
- CISA, which the Trump administration and Congress created in 2018 by reorganizing an existing DHS wing, became a target of right-wing vitriol after its Trump-appointed director rebuffed the president’s election conspiracy theories in 2020.
- The incidents turned a once-obscure agency with bipartisan credibility into a conservative bogeyman.
- Now, with Trump returning to office vowing to purge disloyal civil servants and turn DHS into an immigration-crackdown machine, CISA employees are acutely worried about the fate of their still-fledgling agency.
- CISA is bracing for change in several areas that were key to US president Joe Biden’s cybersecurity agenda.
- CISA employees and Biden administration officials expect the Trump team to kill Biden’s corporate responsibility initiatives.
- CISA employees are also watching uneasily to see if Trump officials pressure the cyber agency to water down its draft regulation requiring critical infrastructure operators to report cyber incidents.
- CISA is also bracing for changes to its election security mission.
- Trump’s victory could also have serious consequences for other CISA missions.
- Trump’s promised changes to civil-service rules, which would expose more government workers to politically motivated firings, are also alarming CISA employees.
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