Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process, in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2020. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's purges and apparent acts of retribution aimed at top cyber officials put the nation's digital defenses at risk, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a post on Friday.
Trump's recent moves to fire the two top National Security Agency (NSA) officials and order an investigation into the former head of CISA, Christopher Krebs, were part of a larger movement "that risks hollowing out - and worse, politicizing - the U.S. federal cyber ecosystem when we can least afford it," said Jen Easterly, who succeeded Krebs at CISA.
