The Elon Musk (Doge) Government Effectiveness Department has fired more than one hundred employees working for the CISA CISA government service, including “Red Group” officials, two people affected by redundancies in Techcrunch.
The people who asked not to be named, these affected officials were disappointed immediately when their network access was revoked without prior notice.
The redundancies, which occurred in late February and early March, are the last round of staff cuts to hit the federal service in cyberspace since the start of Trump’s administration.
Cisa spokesman Tess Hyre refused to comment on the last round of work cuts that influenced the organization and would not say how many employees had been influenced. Hyre told TechCrunch that Cisa’s red team “remains functional”, but said the organization “revisits all contracts to ensure that they are in line with the priorities of the new administration”.
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One of the people who were influenced told TechCrunch that Cisa Red Team employees, who simulate real world attacks to detect security weaknesses before the attackers did, were influenced by the cuts adopted by Doge.
Another person affected by redundancies who asked to remain anonymous because of the fear of government retaliation, told TechCrunch that CISA employees who worked for the CISA (CIRT) event reaction group, who is responsible for the management of the US -based trials. Government services and agencies.
“As for what will happen to these government systems, I have no knowledge,” the man said.
The person said overall that more than 80 employees who supported continuous monitoring had been fired, as well as between 30 and 50 workers working in an incident.
One of the affected officials told TechCrunch that they are now looking for “Doge -resistant concerts”.
“Doge felt like a ballistic rocket without a guidance system,” man said.
This is from our counting the third known round of job cuts to influence CISA employees from January 20th. More than 130 cisa employees were cut by Doge earlier in February, according to reportsAnd several CISA employees who worked in the electoral security were on leave in January.
