It’s challenging to watch dismantling of effective services for political reasons:

…proposed budget cuts and its plan to make states more responsible for infrastructure protection threaten to further degrade the country’s readiness to withstand digital threats like China-backed cyberattacks and criminal ransomware sprees.

“The idea [of] pushing the responsibility for cybersecurity to the states,” Weiss said, “is ludicrous.”

State and local governments “were not built and are not prepared to take on nation-state actors” in cyberspace, said Frank Cilluffo, director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security.

Read the rest of Eric Geller’s Dwindling federal cyber support for critical infrastructure raises alarms