Proposed DHS budget jeopardizes local cyber defenses

October 3, 2025

Proposed DHS budget jeopardizes local cyber defenses

Nearly 19,000 state and local government offices could lose access to vital cyber threat intelligence and affordable security tools by the end of the month. It comes at a time when adversarial hackers have increasingly targeted local governments, law enforcement, utilities and schools in recent years. "This is the risk for me: that real-time, actionable information that we can share on a national platform with state and local law enforcement ceases to come," Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, an MS-ISAC member, told Axios. "Then, we're in the dark." Read more from Axios’ Sam Sabin.

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