This article details focuses on the cuts that the Trump administration has been making to cybersecurity personnel in the federal government. CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has cut probationary employees and reportedly employees of this agency received two rounds of emails encouraging them to retire. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has stated the reason behind these cuts to be that CISA has “strayed from its core mission of defending against critical cybersecurity threats.” Chris Krebs, a former government cybersecurity leader has made note of major hacking campaigns that have been traced to China, and is arguing that the US government should be strengthening it’s cybersecurity defense, not weakening it.
