CISA’s Critical Partnership Division Gutted in Major Staffing Cuts
Sweeping layoffs at CISA have dismantled the agency’s primary partnership division, eliminating international coordination and industry collaboration functions. Security experts warn the cuts create dangerous vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure protection.
Major Restructuring Eliminates Key Cybersecurity Partnerships
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has effectively dismantled its primary partnership division through sweeping layoffs that eliminated nearly all staff positions, according to reports from multiple sources familiar with the matter. The Trump administration’s cuts to the Stakeholder Engagement Division (SED) have left three of its four units without any staff as the reductions take effect in early December.
