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New from me: Inside CISA as Trump prepares to take power. Employees are worried that he'll end key projects, drive away star talent, and generally weaken the agency's role in protecting the government and the nation from hackers. My @wired.com story: www.wired.com/story/cisa-c...

CISA staffers expect Trump to spurn efforts to raise the tech industry's security baseline. "Compliance efforts like secure-by-design may not have the support that they currently benefit from," one employee said. Also at risk: Election security aid and incident reporting rules.

On election security, the cyber official noted that Trump's pick to lead DHS (which oversees CISA), Kristi Noem, is a 2020 election conspiracy theorist. "I have a lot of questions about what happens there," the official said.

One CISA staffer even told me that they expect to see the "persecution of those who have done election security work" after Trump takes office.

It's not just marquee projects like secure-by-design. Trump could also weaken CISA's oversight of other federal agencies, which grew under Biden, sometimes in ways that rankled those other agencies. Separately, one of CISA's most powerful tools could be unexpectedly threatened.