Director Krebs eager for more CISA 'boots on ground' at state and local level

CISA Director Christopher Krebs and officials from Texas and Michigan agreed on the need for providing more federal cybersecurity expertise and “on-the-ground” assistance at the state and local level, during a Senate Homeland Security hearing today that underscored increasingly shared perspectives on cyber issues at different levels of government.

Krebs said the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is focused on “deploying resources to the field” with clear guidelines on what help the federal government can provide and what states must...