U.S. President Donald Trump this week fired Christopher Krebs, the director of the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), after he refuted claims of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the recent presidential election.
Days before Trump announced the decision, Krebs said he expected to get fired by the White House over content posted on CISA’s Rumor Control website, whose goal is to debunk misinformation regarding the election.
Bryan Ware, assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA, also left the agency, reportedly after the White House asked him to resign.
Brandon Wales, CISA’s first executive director, has been appointed the agency’s acting director following the departure of Krebs.
Several officials and cybersecurity professionals have criticized the decision to fire Krebs.
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Jerry Ray, COO, SecureAge:
“While unlikely that the firing of the CISA Director will inspire cyber attacks from abroad on critical infrastructure in the US because systems appear more vulnerable today than yesterday, industry partners, observers, and US citizens certainly will be skeptical of any statements made by CISA about the election or anything else between now and January 2021.
Supporters of the President will have bought in to his claims of CISA and its Director having failed completely and lied about election security. And detractors of the President will assume that anyone who accepts such a tenuous appointment by the lame duck President as the new Director will be compl ..
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