Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to - and funding for -  the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost cybersecurity services to state and local governments. "CISA's cooperative agreement with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) will …

[Anonymous Coward]

empower SLTT [state, local, tribal, and territorial] partners

The feds, aka Trump, will be safe. Everyone else is weaker. All going to plan.

[Bryan W]

Love how they phrased this as the usual BS about "giving power back to local government." Uh... It was discount threat scanning and intelligence sharing... I don't think CIS was infringing on any entity's ability to do anything. Only watching their back.

Eat it up MAGA nitwits. Sold our country to rich professional scammers because you're too bigoted to accept change.

Still doing fine in the professional sector. I'll have my lake house built end of this year. Sucks to be one of the vacant skulled farmers who voted red tho. Hope they don't go bankrupt. /s

[Anonymous Coward]

could be paranoid, could be prudent

I would strongly recommend you get your hands on some hardware because if this country doesn't have a miracle stored in its ass, you may end up getting some MAGA breaking into your lake house to "stand his ground" on you.

[Ropewash]

Re: could be paranoid, could be prudent

Always have enough iron and lead to back up your gold and silver.

[ITS Retired]

The ISAC funding cuts, along with the broader budget and staff reductions at CISA have led to worries about election security and how officials across all 50 states will be able to rapidly share threat information.

Right there is the main reason why. The results for the next election are already being tabulated.

[Anonymous Coward]

Computer emergency response team (CERT)

CERT Division: “The CERT Division is a leader in cybersecurity. We partner with government, industry, law enforcement, and academia to improve the security and resilience of computer systems and networks. We study problems that have widespread cybersecurity implications and develop advanced methods and tools to counter large-scale, sophisticated cyber threats.”

[slack0]

The trump admin and 75 million of its supporters believe the election infrastructure function was abused. When stewarding a public function that is important it's best to not alienate a huge part of the electorate.

Otherwise it's just crying about a self-indlicted loss. Like it or not the information sources bifurcation is real and isn't going away. It would do readers a great service to steel man the other side.