Security News > 2022 > August > Ex-CISA chief Krebs calls for US to get serious on security

It's time to reorganize the US government and create a new agency focused solely on on digital risk management services, according to former CISA director Chris Krebs.

Or, if that's too ambitious for Uncle Sam, Krebs proposed to at least pull CISA out of the Department of Homeland Security and make it a sub-cabinet agency that's allowed to operate independently.

Krebs then co-founded a security consulting firm with Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos with SolarWinds as the firm's first client.

The Aspen Institute, a homeland security policy think-tank where Krebs is a commissioner, will tackle this issue, too.

"We could see, from a far end of the spectrum: a heavy package of establishing a US digital agency that could take elements of CISA, elements of NIST and NTIA, the Department of Energy and the National Labs, maybe bits and pieces of the FTC and the FCC," Krebs said.

"What that's done in the meantime, is distracting our intelligence community, our national security community that was five years ago focused on the highest sort of threat," such as Russia's GRU, China's MSS and other nation-state cyber threats, Krebs said.

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