CISA’s 7 Biggest Challenges in 2026

From infrastructure protection to improving morale, the cybersecurity agency has a lot on its plate — and it still lacks a leader.
The beleaguered Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency faces a big test in 2026, with pressure mounting on the agency to clarify its approach to a wide range of security challenges.
Several of the agency’s infrastructure partners agreed. “The essential mechanisms CISA needs to support critical infrastructure partners have been hollowed out,” said Errol Weiss, chief security officer at the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC). If a cybersecurity crisis hits healthcare or any other sector, he predicted, CISA’s “vital lifeline of coordination, support, and resource triage will be severely constrained, if not entirely severed.”
The cuts have “created a dangerous void” and left U.S. critical infrastructure “fundamentally more vulnerable,” Weiss said.
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