After Trump fires CISA’s director, the agency is poised to become even more powerful

Photo of Christopher Krebs by Drew Angerer / Getty Images. Article by Patrick Howell O’Neill.

A dramatic firing by tweet does little to alter the bipartisan support to make it the nation’s lead cybersecurity agency.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump fired Chris Krebs, who was one of the government’s most senior cybersecurity officials. Trump fired him—by tweet—because Krebs had thoroughly debunked election disinformation, much of which came from the White House itself.

Trump had appointed Krebs director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in 2017. CISA is charged with protecting American critical infrastructure, a vast domain ranging from elections technology to vaccine manufacturing and government systems. Many of the United States’ most sensitive networks fall under CISA’s purview. With Krebs out and Trump’s presidency ending, where does that leave one of America’s most important cybersecurity agencies? […]

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