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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of government, coordinating cybersecurity programs with U.S. states, and improving the government's cybersecurity protections against private and nation-state hackers.
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA S. 2588 113th Congress, S. 754 114th Congress) is a United States federal law designed to "improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes". [ 1 ] The law allows the sharing of Internet traffic information ...
Years of service. 1990–2010. Rank. Colonel. Jen Easterly is an American intelligence officer and former military official who is serving as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Biden administration. She was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate on July 12, 2021. [2][3]
In a joint statement released Wednesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said, "Iranian ...
CISA stopped briefing platforms about how U.S. elections are administered after the 2022 midterms, a current CISA employee said, though they did not attribute the move to Republican pressure.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018 (H.R. 3359, Pub. L. 115–278 (text) (PDF)) was signed by president Donald Trump on November 16, 2018, to establish the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the Department of Homeland Security. [1][2][3][4] The act was introduced into the United States House of ...
That’s when election infrastructure was designated as critical infrastructure, and CISA was designated as the federal agency responsible for protecting it, according to Easterly.
Officials reporting to the Director of the CISA include: Deputy Director of CISA - Nitin Natarajan. Executive Director of CISA - Brandon Wales. Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity Division (CSD) - Eric Goldstein. Executive Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security Division (ISD) - Dr. David Mussington.