Saying what we all know. Continued degradation of staff in critical positions will results in errors that will have consequences imagine hacking into the psych and medical records of every VA patient... 'There’s going to be an incident': Fired federal worker warns DOGE is risking security During a Wednesday interview on CNN, Jonathan Kamens – who oversaw cybersecurity efforts in the benefit portal for the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) – spoke out about what he viewed as an "inevitable" security breach. He said Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE (which is not an official federal agency authorized by Congress) was putting Americans in jeopardy by including critical government workers in its mass firings. "In the time that i was at VA, what I saw was a bunch of dedicated employees trying to do their best to maintain VA.gov and keep it online and secure. But they were overworked. There just weren't enough people to do all the work," Kamens said. "And now with me being gone and other people being gone because DOGE has fired them or fired them by proxy through VA, there's even fewer people to do the work. And it's inevitable when you don't have enough people to maintain the cybersecurity of VA.gov or any other website, it's going to deteriorate and eventually there's going to be an incident."
I’m wondering what the true level of effort is for va.gov. It’s not like they have to figure out what they need to do to secure it. They are literally given a playbook to follow. If they have to do everything manually then they need different IT people anyways.
ever evolving threats, software upgrades, patches installed, etc is how my it guys justify their existence besides making my printer work again
not according to the guy that ran the place. they couldn't keep up with the staff that they had. just because one department or agency may be bloated doesn't mean they all are, especially the ones that require highly skilled, in demand employees where the feds have to compete with the private market
There's so much that you don't know. I was just talking to a friend that does cyber security for the Navy who wascomplaining that they had to let people go despite being short staffed. It's being short-sided because at some point they will have to hire more people and it will ultimately cost the government more money. It's hard enough trying to find the qualities fiber security engineers with the level of clearance that they require
And you were just talking to a someone that does cyber security on a message board who probably has the clearance that they require. Only difference is I’m not so dramatic
