A spokesperson for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed it terminated a $10 million partnership with the Center for Internet Security for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center. That figure is less than half of the funding CISA provides, the spokesperson noted.
The spokesperson said MS-ISAC and EI-ISAC, which allow state, local, tribal and territorial governments to share threat information and best practices while providing tools and other services for free or at a reduced cost, “no longer effectuates department priorities."
Among the activities that would be cut are stakeholder engagement, cyber threat intelligence and cyber incident response, which the spokesperson said are already offered by CISA to SLTT governments.
"This action will save taxpayers approximately $10 million a year, focus CISA’s work on mission critical areas, and eliminate redundancies,” the spokesperson said. “The agency is committed to good stewardship of taxpayer dollars.”
It is still unclear what the cutbacks, which DHS first announced last week, mean for the future of MS-ISAC, while EI-ISAC’s website notes that the Center for Internet Security “no longer supports” it. A CIS spokesperson declined to comment via email, except to say that “many of the questions we are receiving are the same ones we are asking.”
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