House Homeland panel's bipartisan leaders say CISA needs more funding than provided in Trump budget

Bipartisan leaders of a House Homeland Security subcommittee urged CISA Director Christopher Krebs to outline additional resources needed to improve the nation's cybersecurity operations -- including implementing new recommendations from a congressionally chartered commission -- at a budget hearing Wednesday.

The hearing was scheduled to review the Trump administration's budget request for fiscal 2021, which includes cuts to CISA spending, but came on the same day that the Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued its much-anticipated policy recommendations for countering foreign...