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Trump Revenge Tour Targets Cyber Leaders, Elections

President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history. The White House memo, which also suspended clearances for other security professionals at Krebs’s employer SentinelOne, comes as…

Purging cyber review board was ‘a great idea,’ DHS deputy secretary nominee says

Expelling all members of an independent federal cybersecurity advisory panel as it was investigating Salt Typhoon was necessary due to previous leadership and the board “going in the wrong direction,” President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. Troy Edgar, who is serving as a senior adviser to…

Removal of Cyber Safety Review Board members sparks alarm from cyber pros, key lawmaker

The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee and a number of cyber professionals on Wednesday lamented the Trump administration’s decision to purge a cyber incident investigation board of its membership. But the move had some supporters, including the chairman of that same committee. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued a…

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