Warner unveils bill to restore cyber information-sharing program funding
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) questions U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as he testifies during a Senate Committee on Finance hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 03, 2026. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
ByDavid DiMolfetta,
Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
June 5, 2026 04:02 PM ET
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee also sent letters to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and to every governor urging them to support state and local cyberdefense.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., is introducing legislation to permanently fund a cybersecurity information-sharing program used by thousands of state, local, tribal and territorial governments, after the Trump administration ended federal support for the effort last year.
The measurewould require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to provide funding for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or MS-ISAC, a nonprofit-run program that offers services like...
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