Kristi Noem says CISA is its resources in ways that never intended.
Kristi Noem has been nominated to be the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and has emphasised moving the agency away from anti-disinformation and refocusing the role of CISA to better strengthen the country's critical infrastructure.
According to CyberScoop, Noem - who is also governor of South Dakota - said that CISA has “gotten far off-mission” in a testimony before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
“They’re using their resources in ways that [were] never intended,” she said. “The misinformation and disinformation that they have stuck their toe into and meddled with should be refocused back onto what their job is.
“CISA needs to be much more effective — smaller, more nimble — to fulfill their mission, which is to hunt and to help harden our nation’s critical infrastructure.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
