A proposed $250 million reduction for cyber security efforts in the fiscal year 2021 budgetrequest for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is in part due to thefact that there will be less need for election security funding next year given that it is an offyearfor major elections, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security said onTuesday.Secretary Chad Wolf noted that a congressional plus-up to the FY ’20 CISA budget is being puttoward helping to secure elections and political campaigns this year in the run up to theNovember elections. He also said that much of what CISA does, even if it’s not specific toelection security, benefits cyber security of elections.
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