Amit Yoran is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Tenable. He was also the Founding Director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) program in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Disturbed by Congress’ recent decision proposing a 25% budget reduction for CISA, Amit penned the following letter. It was co-signed by several esteemed CISOs, entrepreneurs and business leaders, including Nikesh Arora, Chair and CEO, Palo Alto Networks; George Kurtz, Co-Founder and CEO, CrowdStrike; and Ron Green, CSO, Mastercard.

A flagrant political stunt, 108 politicians voted for the budget cut in an attempt to counter ‘disinformation’ related to election security, which they believe is created by CISA in support of their political opponents.

What they apparently fail to understand is that if we were to do that, CISA would no longer have the resources necessary to monitor federal networks and provide the frontline national security defense they do today. When that happens, our adversaries will make sure that our infrastructure, now at critical risk, upon which they all depend for their stints in Congress, will become useless to us all.

Please contact your representatives in both the House and Senate and tell them you support our effort to eliminate CISA budget cuts now and into the future. It represents our last-mile defense.

Amit previously served as RSA’s president, spearheading its transformation into one of the most successful global security companies, following its acquisition of NetWitness – the network forensics company he founded and led as CEO.