CISA Begins Hiring Push for 329 Employees, With 180 Job Offers Expected This Month

Acting Director Nick Andersen said CISA is accelerating hiring, with 180 tentative offers expected by month’s end and hundreds of new employees slated to join the agency.

The Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) has officially embarked on a hiring push to bring in 329 new employees, with roughly 180 job offers expected to go out this month, according to acting CISA Director Nick Andersen.

Speaking at Axonius’ Adapt in Action event on June 9 in Washington, D.C., Andersen said the hiring effort is part of a broader push to modernize the agency by better integrating the agency’s cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and emergency communications missions.

“We’re focused on building a CISA for the future,” Andersen said. “We’re really taking a concerted effort right now, bringing all those missions together and saying, how is it that we balance our approach between cyber impacts, physical security impacts, and between our emergency communications resiliency mission?”

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