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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Vastakis was originally part of the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO). That Office was created just 5 years ago \u2013 after it was discovered that hackers linked to Russian intelligence agencies breached White House systems.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/leemathews\/2019\/10\/23\/senior-infosec-staffer-resigns-says-white-house-on-track-to-be-hacked-again\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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