Security News > 2020 > November > Firing of CISA Chief Christopher Krebs Widely Condemned
Government officials and cybersecurity experts alike condemned President Trump's firing of Christopher Krebs by tweet Tuesday, as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency became the latest victim of the president's housecleaning efforts after his failed bid at a second term.
Krebs was appointed by Trump in 2018 as the first director of the Department of Homeland Security's CISA. However, he challenged the president by trying to debunk false claims Trump has made suggesting that the recent 2020 presidential election was rigged against him-the reason why Krebs was sacked, observers said.
The now former CISA chief-widely touted as non-partisan in how he approached his job-is widely credited with ensuring that the election was not tampered with by nation-state actors and remained secure for all voters, with the DHS last week calling it "The most secure in election history."
In an interview with CNN, ex-CIA director John Brennan, who served under President Barack Obama, said the firing of the "Highly qualified and widely respected" Krebs was the result of a "Vendetta" by a president who is "Trying to steal the election back" from Biden.
"Chris Krebs and the CISA team have done a singularly brilliant job, and done it transparently, under what has been one of the most divisive and fraught election cycles in our country's history," Chloé Messdaghi, vice president of strategy for Point3 Security, said in an e-mail to Threatpost.