Cyber agency faces major milestones with release of functions list, first-time budget hearings

The coming month includes pivotal moments for DHS' new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as lawmakers gear up for a first-time review of the agency's spending plans with initial indications of a potential funding boost, and CISA prepares to release a critical functions list – a major deliverable since the department's shift to strategic risks last summer.

The House Appropriations homeland security subcommittee is slated May 1 to hold its first CISA budget hearing on the fiscal 2020 spending...