‘Just wait’ to see how CISA reforms play out, DHS head tells cyber community

Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 14, 2025. Noem told attendees at the 2025 RSAC April 28 that reforms to CISA would be "much more responsive." Al Drago for The Washington Post via Getty Images

SAN FRANCISCO — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a crowd of hundreds of cybersecurity practitioners Tuesday that, despite headlines about significant cuts being levied against the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the cyber community should look forward to new changes that will make the nation’s cyber defense agency more robust.

“I know the press has covered the role of Homeland Security and what we have done in CISA — as far as some of the reforms and efficiencies and some of the initiatives and task forces and advisory councils that were changing — as a bad thing,” she said in a speech at the ...