President Trump and his team spent their first week back in office wiping nearly all of the government's cybersecurity and surveillance advisers from its roster. Why it matters: The pool of experts left to help new Trump officials and remaining agency staffers respond to major cyber incidents is shrinking.

The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated.

The Department of Homeland Security has terminated all members of advisory committees, including one that has been investigating a major Chinese hack of large US telecom firms. "The Cyber Safety Review Board—a Department of Homeland Security investigatory body stood up under a Biden-era cybersecurity executive order to probe major cybersecurity incidents—has been cleared of non-government members as part of a DHS-wide push to cut costs under the Trump administration,

DHS terminates advisory committees, including CSRB, halting investigations into Chinese cyberattacks and AI safety.