The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is eliminating a program it used to retain uniquely valuable security professionals after an audit found that the agency had mismanaged the program.
In 2015, CISA’s predecessor inside the Department of Homeland Security created the Cybersecurity Retention Incentive (CRI) program to offer extra money to employees who were likely to leave the government for higher-paying private-sector jobs. CRI incentives were intended to apply only to a narrow subset of CISA employees with specialized cybersecurity skills. But, in September, the DHS inspector general found that CISA was offering the incentives too broadly.
In a statement to Cybersecurity Dive, CISA said it would soon end the CRI program.
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