Tennessee Chief Information Officer Kristin Darby, New York State Director of Security and Intelligence Colin Ahern, Florida CIO Warren Sponholtz and Samir Jain, vice president of policy at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology, are sworn in before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection on May 21, 2026. (Homeland Security Committee Events / YouTube)
"We are being asked to manage nation-state risks while our federal partners step back,” Colin Ahern, New York State’s director of security and intelligence, told House lawmakers.
US Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., testifies during a hearing of the House Task Force on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 26, 2024. (Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)
