CISA (MIGHT) GET A BOOST

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday included almost $400 million more than last year for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in its budget proposal for the upcoming year.

The committee proposed the increase in the wake of months of escalating cyberattacks, most notably the SolarWinds hack that compromised nine U.S. federal agencies and 100 private sector groups, and ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and meat producer JBS USA.

The committee specifically proposed a budget of $2.42 billion for CISA in fiscal year 2022, just shy of $400 million over CISA’s budget in 2021, and more than $288 million above what the agency requested earlier this year.

These funds would go towards issues including critical infrastructure security, emergency communications, risk management, and other cybersecurity-related concerns.