
Proponents of a substantial increase in annual funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are on the mark given the emergence of cyber conflict as real threat to the homeland and the critical functions U.S. citizens rely on, one of the Senate’s leading experts on cybersecurity said this week. Sen. Angus King (I/D-Me.) said that the $5 billion budget for CISA touted by Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) “is on the right track” because cyber conflict isn’t about a…