Cybersecurity Dive March 10, 2025
Rob Joyce told lawmakers mass layoffs of federal workers will hurt the ability of the U.S. to combat malicious cyber activity from China and other adversaries.
A retired top cybersecurity official from the National Security Agency warned a key House panel that widespread cuts to federal probationary workers could severely harm the U.S.’s ability to counter threats from China and other cyber adversaries.
“I want to raise my grave concerns that the aggressive threats to cut U.S. government probationary employees will have a devastating effect on the cybersecurity and our national security,” Rob Joyce, former director of cybersecurity at the NSA, said in testimony Wednesday before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
Joyce warned that...