While TSA Made Headlines, CISA Went Dark

The report explains that a prolonged DHS/CISA funding lapse severely degraded national cybersecurity coordination just as a major escalation in state-sponsored and hacktivist cyber activity unfolded—highlighting an Iran-linked wiper attack on Stryker, reports of tens of thousands of exposed industrial control systems, and Chinese actors prepositioning on critical infrastructure—then urges private organizations to assume greater responsibility for threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and incident response while federal support is constrained.