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Congressional officials wonder how CISA can carry out core mission in face of workforce cuts

Moira Bergin, minority staff director at the House Homeland Security Committee, and Alexandra Seymour, staff director for the committee’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection subcommittee, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on April 29, 2025. (McCrary Institute)
By Greg Otto •

In her appearance at the RSAC 2025 Conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spoke about getting CISA back to its “core mission” of protecting federal networks and critical infrastructure from cybersecurity threats. 

Other cyber policy experts wonder how that is going to unfold with such concentration on cutting CISA’s workforce. 

Congressional staffers and cybersecurity policy experts expressed deep concern about CISA during a panel discussion at the conference, with particular attention given to the agency’s ongoing staffing reductions.

The comments came during a bigger discussion about efforts to build and retain a qualified cyber workforce in the face of growing threats, budget constraints and political turbulence that the panel said threatens to further erode government cyber readiness.

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