CISA chief details hiring progress, AI BOD

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is extending nearly 200 job offers this month, as CISA looks to reinforce its depleted ranks amid a wave of new artificial intelligence security mandates and activities.

During a Tuesday morning keynote address at a conference in Washington hosted by Axonius, acting CISA Director Nick Andersen also said the agency is reorienting itself around a “ruthless” prioritization of cyber-physical risks in both federal networks and critical infrastructure.

Andersen’s comments come amid heightened concerns about the security of federal networks and critical infrastructure due to advances in AI. President Donald Trump last week signed out an AI security executive order that tasks CISA and other agencies with numerous actions.

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