Former chief Krebs: We need to ‘make CISA great again’ in response to federal cuts on cybersecurity

SAN FRANCISCO. Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs provided a passionate defense against government efforts to cut funding for cybersecurity at a session here at the RSA conference, where he reviewed with former NSA and U.S. Cyber Command chief Paul Nakasone the current threat landscape.

As a former director, Krebs said, “I could be pissed off at CISA getting cut back and all that, and I can see the policy arguments for trying to downsize government, streamline,...