CISA to furlough most of its workforce under impending DHS shutdown

A likely partial DHS shutdown would significantly impair CISA’s operations, leaving about one-third of staff to handle only essential, immediate-threat work while suspending proactive efforts such as vulnerability scanning, security assessments, stakeholder engagements, and training exercises. The disruption would also slow ongoing updates to the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act rulemaking and comes amid notable workforce losses, even as CISA initiates new CIRCIA listening sessions.