More than a month into a partial federal government shutdown, questions are starting to arise whether states and local governments, which rely on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for monitoring and intelligence about potential cyberattacks against their networks, are still getting those crucial updates. State governments get routine alerts from DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, about threats against systems related to elections, the energy grid and other critical government functions.
With DHS currently unfunded, CISA is currently staffed only by unpaid “essential” employees, but little is known about what parts of the cybersecurity mission are being carried out, including information sharing with state and local governments.
