Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World

Trump administration The radical changes in the United States’s fiscal policy, foreign relations and global strategy – which have been identified with collective launchs throughout the federal government – have created uncertainty about the priorities of cybersecurity in the United States that were presented this week in two of the country’s most prominent digital security conferences in Las Vegas. “We are not retreating, we are advancing in a new direction,” said Robert Costilo, chief information official at the Cyber Security Agency and Infrastructure, Robert Costilo on Thursday during the Critical Infrastructure Defense Committee in Black Hat.

As in other parts of the federal government, the Trump administration was combing the intelligence and cyber security agencies to remove officials who are seen as unwanted in its agenda. Besides these transformations, the White House was hostile to the former American cybersecurity officials. In April, for example, Trump specifically directed all departments and agencies to cancel the security permit of former CISA director Chris Krebis. Last week, after criticism of the right -wing right -wing activist Laura Lumir, the Army Minister canceled an academic appointment that was to be filled by former CISA director Jin Setirley in West Point. Amid all this, the former US National Security Agency and President of Cyber Leadership Paul Nakason spoke with the founder of Devikon Jeff Moss in a stage of stage on Friday, focusing on artificial intelligence, electronic crimes, and the importance of partnerships in digital defense.

“I think we have entered an area now in the world, as technology has become mainly political, each of us is conflicting,” Moss said at the beginning of the discussion. Nakason, who works on the Openai Board of Directors, cited Trump in January of the “Stargate” initiative for the infrastructure surrounded by Larry Ellson from Oracle, son of Masayoshi in Softbank, and the Openai Altman Medal. Then after two days, only by chance, [the Chinese generative AI platform] Dibsic came out, “Nakason is dead.” Amazing. “

Nakason was also reflected in the demographic differences between the US federal government and the technology sector.

“When I was the director of the National Security Agency and the commander of the American Internet Command, every quarter will go to the Gulf or I will go to Texas, Boston or other places to see technology,” he said. “Everywhere I went to him, I was the weakness of the people who spoke with me. Then when I went back to the capital and sat on the table, I was a young man there. Well, this is a problem. This is a problem for our nation.”

Throughout the discussion, Nakason has greatly directed his observations towards efforts to confront their competitors and traditional opponents, including China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, as well as specific digital threats.

He said: “Why don’t we think differently in Ransomwari, which I think is now among the great pains that we have in our country.” “We are not making progress against Ransomwari.”

Sometimes, Moss tried to direct the conversation towards geopolitical changes and conflicts all over the world that feed the uncertainty and fear.

“How to be neutral in this environment? Can you be neutral? Or is the world environment since last year, Ukraine, Israel, Russia, and Iran, just your choice, America – how does anyone remain neutral?” Moss asked at the beginning of the conversation. He later added: “I think I am very tense from the chaos of the situation, I am trying to feel how I can control?”

In reference to these notes and comments made by Moss about the transformation into open source software platforms as an alternative to community building for multinational technology companies, Nakason hinted at the idea of Moss that the world and his entry into an unstable flow.

“This will be an interesting story that we play through 25 and 26. When we go back [to Defcon] Next year to conduct this discussion, will we still be able to get this feeling, oh, we are really neutral? I don’t feel. I think it will be very difficult. “