The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) could be ‘gutted’ under President Trump, according to reports, as recommendations within Project 2025 have called for the agency’s responsibilities to be moved and for its core support to be stripped away.
A former CISA head has warned that there is still much work to be done in the agency, including in its focus on ransomware prevention.
Voting rights advocacy organisation Campaign Legal Center has spoken out against the Project 2025 suggestions for DHS, with its executive director stating such a move would be “absolutely bonkers”.
Critics have also highlighted that the proposed move of CISA’s responsibilities to the Department of Transportation undermines the purpose of DHS as a central national resource for protection.
There are also concerns that the move would damage software composition analysis support, as a lack of updates to CVE would render tools such as OWASP Dependency-Check ineffective.