Risky Business #788 -- Trump targets Chris Krebs, SentinelOne
The Trump administration's political targeting of former CISA director Krebs and SentinelOne raises concerns about the independence of US cybersecurity institutions that European partners rely on for threat intelligence.
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks to former NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce about Donald Trump’s unprecedented, unwarranted and completely bonkers political persecution of Chris Krebs and his employer SentinelOne.
They also talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, covering:
Mitre’s stewardship of the CVE database gets its funding DOGE’d The US signs on to the Pall Mall anti-spyware agreement China tries to play the nationstate cyber-attribution game, but comedically badly
Editorial Analysis
European enterprises and agencies depend on US threat-intelligence pipelines; politicisation of key institutions could degrade the quality and timeliness of shared intelligence.
Diversify threat-intelligence sources to include EU-based feeds (ENISA, national CERTs) to reduce single-point-of-failure dependency on US programmes.
Political pressure on US cybersecurity leadership may weaken the intelligence-sharing partnerships that underpin European enterprise defences.
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