A senior member of the White House cybersecurity staff delivered his resignation as part of a scathing memo this week. Among other things, he claims security is taking a back seat to convenience at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
That staffer was Dimitrios Vastakis, whose official title was branch chief of the White House computer network defense. His resignation this week is just the latest in a string of worrying departures by members of the White House infosec team.
Vastakis was originally part of the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO). That Office was created just 5 years ago – after it was discovered that hackers linked to Russian intelligence agencies breached White House systems.
In a short amount of time, the staff of the OCISO made dramatic improvements to the White House systems known collectively as the Presidential Information Technology Community (PITC).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2019/10/23/senior-infosec-staffer-resigns-says-white-house-on-track-to-be-hacked-again/
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