Cybersecurity Experts Are Leaving the Federal Government. That’s a Problem.
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Reported today on The New York Times
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OpinionCybersecurity Experts Are Leaving the Federal Government. That's a Problem.The departures leave our critical infrastructure, elections, data and networks vulnerable.At the end of 2019, with less than a year to go until the presidential election, the government official who has been leading efforts to secure voting systems in the United States will leave the Department of Homeland Security to join Google. The impending departure of Jeanette Manfra, the assistant director for cybersecurity at the department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is a major loss for the federal government's civilian cybersecurity efforts, and it comes at the end of a year that saw a series of departures by key cybersecurity personnel.In August, the former White House Chief Information Security Officer Joe Schatz left government to join consulting firm TechCentrics. A few months later, in October, Dimitrios Vastakis, the former branch chief of White House computer network defense, resigned as well, explaining his reasons in a memo obtained by Axios with the subject "cybersecurity personnel leaving office of the administration at an alarming rate."Vastakis's memo stated that the majority of the high-level cybersecurity personnel at the White House had already resigned because of the administration's "habitually being hostile" to them, including using tactics such as "revocation of incentives, reducing the scope of duties, reducing access to programs, revoking access to buildings and revoking positions with strategic and tactical decision making authorities." Through these tactics, in combination with a structural reorganization this summer, the White House effectively dismantled the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer, which was established by President Barac
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