Return the cyber agency to a narrow mission
What the document says“A conservative Administration should return CISA to its statutory and important but narrow mission.”
The chapter states that CISA has been, in its words, weaponised by the Left to censor speech and affect elections. It asks that the agency's funding align narrowly with cyber defense and critical infrastructure, that its emergency communications and chemical facility roles move to FEMA, that its school security functions move to state offices, and that it not duplicate work done at Defense, the FBI and the National Security Agency.
What the document actually says“A conservative Administration should return CISA to its statutory and important but narrow mission.”
Give this agency back its first job. Keep it small and clear.
This agency protects computer systems from attack. The book says it went beyond that job. It says the agency should go back to its first task and do nothing else.
Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness
2025-03-18 · 90 FR 13267
Section 3(b) orders a review of all critical infrastructure policies and states that for purposes of the order those policies do not include any related to purported misinformation, disinformation or malinformation, nor so-called cognitive infrastructure, which is the work the chapter says drew the agency away from its statutory mission, and the order's stated policy is that preparedness be owned at the state, local and individual level. The order never names the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. It reaches critical infrastructure policy across the government rather than one agency's mission and funding, it moves no emergency communications, chemical facility or school security function to the Federal Emergency Management Agency or to the states as the chapter proposes, it says nothing about duplication of work at the Defense Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the National Security Agency, and it commissions recommendations to the President rather than making the change itself.
The order says its policy leaves out work on what it calls false information. The chapter said that work pulled the cyber agency off task. But the order never names that agency. It asks for advice rather than making the change.