People should be ‘outraged’ by efforts to shrink federal cyber teams, former CISA head says

Chris Krebs, the former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security director who defied President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud in 2020 and was subsequently fired, said on Monday that the cybersecurity community should be outraged at changes the second Trump administration is making to cybersecurity staff in the federal government.

“Cybersecurity is national security. We all know that, right? That’s why we’re here,” he said while speaking to a room of security practitioners on a panel at the RSAC Conference in San Francisco, California. 

“That’s why we get up every morning and do our jobs. We are protecting everyone out there. And right now, to see what’s happening to the cybersecurity community inside the federal government, we should be outraged, absolutely outraged,” he added, which was met with applause across the room.

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