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The agency acted on 2,609 cyber incidents and produced 416 vulnerability advisories in 2022.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is growing in size and plans to spend more tax dollars in its effort to coordinate a broad response to digital threats across government and the private sector.
CISA operates a nearly $2.9 billion budget, with 2,800 employees and plans to hire 600 additional staff members, Jen Easterly, director of the agency, said in a blog post published Thursday in tandem with CISA’s year in review.
The agency is unique and without parallels in federal government. CISA is a coordinating agency that reaches across government and business to strengthen cyber defense and response, albeit with some restraints that effectively limit its power.
“We’re not a law enforcement agency, nor an intelligence agency, nor a military organization, nor a regulator in the traditional sense,” Easterly said.
CISA relies on cooperation and trust with partners inside and outside the government to improve their respective security and resilience, she said.
“We recognize that trust can only be built with transparency, humility and open communication,” Easterly said. “People simply don’t trust institutions; they trust people.”
The agency highlighted multiple accomplishments in its review of last year, including:
“We’ve overcome obstacles to meet the demands of our mission, and we’ve grown significantly each year in capability and capacity, collaborating with our myriad of partners to reduce risk to the cyber and physical infrastructure Americans rely on every hour of every day,” Easterly said.
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CISOs are up against talent shortages and retention concerns amid an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape.
Chief Product Officer Josh Prewitt said the company restored email access to more than three-quarters of its Hosted Exchange customers. But Rackspace officials pushed back on alleged connections to ProxyNotShell.
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