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Threat Environment Requires CISA To Continue Growing, Easterly Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, April 28th, 2022

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Threat Environment Requires CISA To Continue Growing, Easterly Says

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: DHS

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) must continue to grow to keep pace with more complex threats, the head of the agency said on Thursday. CISA’s $2.5 billion budget request for fiscal year 2023 is “sufficient for our mission,” Jen Easterly said. “I frankly think the threat environment demands that we continue to increase our capability and our capacity,” she added. The budget request is about $400 million more than the Biden administration sought in FY ’22. Congress, however,…

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