United States Director Of The Cybersecurity And Infrastructure Security Agency Latest 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that is responsible for strengthening 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. Its activities are a continuation of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), and was established on November 16, 2018, when President Donald Trump signed into law the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018.

History

The National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) was formed in 2007 as a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security. NPPD’s goal was to advance the Department’s national security mission by reducing and eliminating threats to U.S. critical physical and cyber infrastructure.

On November 16, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, which elevated the mission of the former NPPD within DHS, establishing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). CISA is a successor agency to NPPD, and assists both other government agencies and private sector organizations in addressing cybersecurity issues. Former NPPD Under-Secretary Christopher Krebs was CISA’s first Director, and former Deputy Under-Secretary Matthew Travis was its first deputy director.

On January 22, 2019, CISA issued its first Emergency Directive (19-01: Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering) warning that “an active attacker is targeting government organizations” using DNS spoofing techniques to perform man-in-the-middle attacks. Research group FireEye stated that “initial research suggests the actor or actors responsible have a nexus to Iran.”

In 2020, CISA created a website, titled Rumor Control, to rebut disinformation associated with the 2020 United States presidential election. On November 12, 2020, CISA issued a press release asserting, “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” On the same day, Director Krebs indicated that he expected to be dismissed from his post by the Trump administration. Krebs was subsequently fired by President Trump on November 17, 2020 via tweet for his comments regarding the security of the election.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at CISA Headquarters in Arlington, VA in August 2021.

On July 12, 2021, the Senate confirmed Jen Easterly by a Voice Vote, directly after the Senate returned from its July 4th recess. Easterly’s nomination had been reported favorably out of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on June 16, but a floor vote had been reportedly held by Senator Rick Scott over broader national security concerns, until the President or Vice President had visited the southern border with Mexico. Upon confirmation, she became the agency’s second director.

Performance

In September 2022, CISA released their 2023–2025 CISA Strategic Plan, the first comprehensive strategy since the agency was established in 2018. The Strategic Plan is set against a risk landscape that encompasses an increasingly interconnected, global cyberspace in which the nation faces 24/7/365 asymmetric cyber threats with largescale, real-world impacts.

Divisions

Real Fake, a 2020 graphic novel from CISA about disinformation and misinformation campaigns

CISA divisions include the:

• Cybersecurity Division
• Infrastructure Security Division
• Emergency Communications Division
• National Risk Management Center
• Integrated Operations Division
• Stakeholder Engagement Division

List of directors

No.	Director		Term
	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Term length
1		Krebs, Chris C.Chris C. Krebs	16 November 2018	17 November 2020	2 years, 1 day
2		Easterly, Jen M.Jen M. Easterly	13 July 2021	Incumbent	1 year, 181 days

See also

• List of federal agencies in the United States

References

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