Cybersecurity Dive September 29, 2025
Employees are worried about threatened mass firings and the cybersecurity ripple effects of a funding lapse.
Roughly one-third of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s workforce will stay on the job if the federal government shuts down on Wednesday, according to newly published guidance.
“CISA estimates 889 employees as the total number excepted and estimated to be retained during a lapse in appropriations,” the Department of Homeland Security said in its shutdown plan document, which it published over the weekend. CISA had 2,540 employees as of the end of May, meaning it would retain just 35% of its workforce during a shutdown. The rest would be furloughed until Congress passed new spending legislation.
CISA is among the agencies that are...
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