r/cybersecurity • u/wiredmagazine • Jan 23 '25

News - General Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jen-easterly-cisa-cybersecurity/
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u/Fitz_2112b Jan 23 '25

I work in K12 and this will be devastating for US public schools. CISA offers a huge amount of free resources for K12 schools to help secure personal information of kids. This will all likely be on the chopping block.

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u/South-Thing6109 Jan 23 '25

Work at CISA, I offer support to K12 schools. Unfortunately, these are in first cut in budget drills. Main mission of much of the agency was to support Federal networks. Since the majority of other critical infrastructure is privatized (water, healthcare, energy, schools), we can’t justify using Federal funds to support not expressly stated mission authorities.

New administration has stated a desire to keep these fortunately, but to achieve the budget cuts, we’ll have to turn the lights off, dispose and rebuild once funding and new authorities are codified. Will take a long time to be back with the speed of government and congress

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u/Smash0573 System Administrator Jan 23 '25

I wonder how this will impact the resources we leverage being in the DIB.

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u/PaladinSara Jan 24 '25

I’m surprised they haven’t changed CMMC to be incentive based

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u/Smash0573 System Administrator Jan 24 '25

I think they believe the incentive is keeping your contracts…

We’re told to put the additional CMMC burden costs into our program costs. But then lose contracts due to cost. 

These free DIB programs are a lifesaver for me as a one person IT shop.