- Many senior CISA leaders leave the agency, says Memo
- The organization is currently faced with its third reduction in staff of 2025
- There are concerns about how the agency will take place in the future
The American Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Agency (CISA) would have undergone a serious flight of higher staff, most of them planning to leave by the end of May 2025.
The CISA is responsible for the safeguarding of American critical infrastructure, and its higher staff is essential in the agency’s ability to liaise with its strategic partners, other federal agencies and international security organizations.
The sudden exodus of the senior management of five of the six operational divisions of the CISA and six of its 10 regional offices comes when the agency faces its third reduction in the workforce this year.
Cisa loses leadership
A statement published by the executive director of the CISA, Bridget Bean, said: “The CISA doubles and performs its statutory mission to ensure the critical infrastructure of the country and strengthens our collective cyber-defense. We were created to be the cybersecurity agency for the nation, and we have the right team instead to carry out this mission and make sure that we are prepared for a range of cyber-menices from our opponents. ”.
While the remaining CISA leaders can put a courageous face, a number of CISA employees who spoke to Cybersecurity Reservations shared on the future and performance of the agency after the departure of senior management.
An employee, who spoke subject to anonymity, said: “With this large number of higher departures, many of whom are leaders that have been here since the time of US-CERT, there is a lot of anxiety around the moment when the cuts and the departures will finally stop and we can go ahead as an agency.”
A second employee, also speaking anonymously, said: “It seems that bad people leave. All these departures give the impression that people leave the mission and create an emptiness. ”
For the operational divisions of the CISA, the head of action of the infrastructure security division, Steve Harris, left on May 16, the acting chief of the stakeholder commitment division that Trent Frazier, on May 2, number 2 of the emergency communications division, Vince Delaurentis, was to leave on May 30. These follow the previous departures of the Boyden division of the Boyden division of Cybersecurity.
The departures of recent regional office and future office include the director of the region 2 John Durkin, the director of the region 4 Jay Gamble, the director of the 5 Alex Joves region and the assistant director Kathy Young, the director of the region 6 Rob Russell, the director of the region 7 Phil Kirk, and the director of the region 10 Patrick Massey.
