House Homeland Security leaders stress CISA’s role in responding to cyber threats from Iran strikes

House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) and ranking member Bennie Thompson (D-MS) emphasized the need to grow the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and end the current shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, in separate statements responding to the Iran strikes.

“Iranian regime-backed cyber actors continue to pose a serious threat to the United States and our allies, from probing our water utilities to running influence operations that undermine our democracy. We know adversaries are looking for any...