{"id":219539,"date":"2026-03-03T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/cisa-cio-robert-costello-exits-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:30:21","slug":"cisa-cio-robert-costello-exits-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/cisa-cio-robert-costello-exits-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"CISA CIO Robert Costello exits agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-cio-robert-costello-exits-agency\/\">CISA CIO Robert Costello exits agency<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-cio-robert-costello-exits-agency\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-cio-robert-costello-exits-agency\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-03 15:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chief information officer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced his departure Tuesday, ending his nearly five-year run at CISA.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Costello, an 18-year veteran of the Department of Homeland Security, posted about the move on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing as CIO at CISA has been one of the greatest privileges of my career,\u201d he said. \u201cTogether, we strengthened our cybersecurity posture, modernized critical systems, and built capabilities that will endure. I am incredibly proud of what we accomplished as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Costello\u2019s tenure had recently grown turbulent, with conflicting accounts of whether the since-departed acting director of CISA, Madhu Gottumukkala, had tried to force him out. Costello last week received transfer orders for possible reassignment to another agency.<\/p>\n<p>Costello had supporters on the Hill and elsewhere, with House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., saying as recently as last month that it was good that an earlier reported attempt to move Costello out of the CISA CIO job had fallen short.<\/p>\n<p>As CIO at the agency, Costello advocated for top-notch tech as a recruiting boon. He has been involved in efforts to respond to vulnerabilities within CISA. He has sometimes served as a public face for the agency at events, has touted new tools designed to enhance CISA services and has argued for greater use of artificial intelligence in his role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout my career at CISA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and in the United States Air Force, I have been guided by a commitment to protecting our nation and advancing the greater good,\u201d Costello said. \u201cIt has been the honor of a lifetime to serve alongside public servants whose integrity and professionalism set the standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Costello did not indicate his future plans beyond leaving the federal government and a \u201ccommitment to service and to this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-cio-robert-costello-exits-agency\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CISA CIO Robert Costello exits agency https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-cio-robert-costello-exits-agency\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-03 15:46:00 Source Domain: cyberscoop.com The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/Broadcom_Thumbnail_Costello.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,24],"class_list":["post-219539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219541,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219539\/revisions\/219541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}