What’s next for cybersecurity, election info sharing?

Information sharing on cybersecurity and election threats may become a whole lot harder after the Department of Homeland Security ended some federal funding for two partnerships used by thousands of state and local governments. A spokesperson for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed it terminated a $10 million partnership with the Center for Internet Security for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Among the activities that would be cut are stakeholder engagement, cyber threat intelligence and cyber incident response. It is still unclear what the cutbacks mean for the future of MS-ISAC, while EI-ISAC’s website notes that the Center for Internet Security “no longer supports” it.