The US Cyber Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) is the center of strange events that can affect the country of the country from hackers. Recently, Doge (Doge), led by Ilon Mask, has started to save money by reducing the contract of CISA's red commands – groups looking for weaknesses in systems, pretending to be hackers.
Red teams are important because they check the safety of important subjects, such as power plants or hospitals and help prepare real attacks. But Doge has fired more than a hundred experts, including experienced people, who work under contracts. One of them, Christopher Chenovet, wrote in LinkedIn that his group and another were removed for a week.
CISA stated on March 12 that their red teams were still working without being broken. But experts, like Dipak Kumar from adaptive people, suspects that if people become less, can they protect the country well? Indeed, at the end of 2024, Red teams made a big report on the weak places in the US infrastructure, finally helping many companies. Now, if CISA is weakening, businesses and governments will have to find ways to protect against cyber criminals, this is very expensive and difficult.
It is not clear how everything will happen, but the situation makes you think about the future of cybersecurity in the US.