The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection will host a hearing this week to chart its CISA 2025 roadmap of oversight, engagement, and legislative goals for the affiliated agency going forward and CISA’s achievements to date.
This hearing will be titled “CISA 2025: The State of American Cybersecurity from a Stakeholder Perspective.” Currently, according to the subcommittee’s witness list, plans include testimony from Tina Won Sherman, director of the Critical Infrastructure Protection and Transportation Security at the Government Accountability Office (GAO); Heather Hogsett, senior vice president of Technology & Risk Management for BITS at the Bank Policy Institute; and Drew Bagley, vice president and counsel for privacy and cyber policy at CrowdStrike.
Other witnesses may be announced this week before the hearing, but they will be called by invitation only. The hearing itself will be open to the public.
“America’s cybersecurity is a crucial component of our national security, and it must be protected in a bipartisan manner and in coordination between both government agencies and the private sector,” Subcommittee Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) said. “As foreign adversaries work day and night to infiltrate and compromise our nation’s critical infrastructure, this subcommittee’s top priorities are strengthening CISA as our nation’s risk advisor and conducting critical oversight to prevent bureaucratic barriers to information sharing. America’s cyber readiness and responsiveness is on the line.”
The focus of the hearing will be on the state of CISA, or the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as well as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) overall. The subcommittee seeks to guarantee CISA matures into an effective operational agency by 2025 without excess bureaucracy. Oversight, engagement, and legislative goals will all be on the table.
The live-streamed hearing will take place on Thursday, March 23, 2023.