CISA Acting Chief Warns DHS Shutdown Causing Resignations and Accumulating Cyber Risk

CISAs acting director Bridget Bean warned lawmakers that the ongoing DHS shutdown is increasing cyber risks across federal and critical infrastructure networks. The agency has lost staff to resignations, cancelled physical and cybersecurity assessments, suspended stakeholder training, and shelved international engagements. Bean described the situation as accumulating risk that grows harder to remediate the longer the shutdown continues. The warning came during the same week as the Iran wars multi-domain cyber escalation, which information sharing centers flagged as straining defensive capacity.