Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone off the rails, vows to set it right

RSAC Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has gone off the rails by trying to dispel disinformation, according to US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

So to "put CISA back on mission," Noem's government department, which oversees the cyber-agency, is "conducting an assessment" prevent any overreach, return money to taxpayers, and realign the workforce "to focus on the mission that Congress has laid out."

That likely translates to staffing and budget cuts, or as Noem described them in a Wednesday keynote address at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco this week: "Reforms and efficiencies."

Noem urged us not to cover the "reforms and efficiencies, and some of the initiatives, and task forces, and advisory councils that we're changing as a bad thing." Instead, she urged, "I would encourage you to say: 'Just wait till you see what we're able to do ...