Cyber Agency Leader Prioritizes Threat Information Sharing (1)

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will focus its mission on defending critical infrastructure, supporting smaller businesses and local governments, and facilitating the sharing of cyber threat intelligence, a senior cyber official said Thursday.

CISA’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, sought to “set the record straight” about the cyber agency’s priorities and its abilities to carry out its mission in front of attendees at the Billington CyberSecurity Summit, a government cybersecurity conference, in Washington DC.

“There has been a lot of what I would call incomplete reporting over the past few months on the future of CISA. There are few key ...