President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Wednesday by revoking the security authorization of the former CISA chief, Chris Krebs, with the White House saying that he was an “important actor in bad faith who armed and abused his government authority” during his time to lead the agency.
The prescription also suspends any active security authorization owned by the employees of Sentinelone, where Krebs is currently an employee as responsible for information and public policies of the company, and has called for an examination of Krebs actions as an employee of the government.
Trump rejected Krebs, a highly estimated official of the Ministry of Homeland Security, in November 2020 after what he considered actions not sufficiently faithful to the president. Krebs had played a key role in protecting the 2020 elections against piracy and disinformation, constantly demystifying the baseless allegations of generalized electoral fraud made by Trump and his allies, generally avoiding a direct reference to the President.
A “rumors control” website managed by the CISA during the 2020 elections, which addressed conspiracy theories on votes and votes stolen by deceased people, would have caused significant dissatisfaction at the White House.
The order claims more and more than Krebs, through the CISA, allegedly removes conservative points of view under the characterization of the “fight against disinformation”, while recruiting social media platforms to advance what the White House calls a “partisan program”. He also said that Krebs has promoted the censorship of electoral information and wrongly rejected concerns about the integrity of the elections and vulnerabilities of voting machines.
The representative of the Mississippi Bennie Thompson, the best democrat of the internal security committee, described the order of “abusive improper use of power”.
“The OE has been nothing other than to settle the old political scores and to distract the public from its aggression against the economy, which was an unmountained disaster,” said Thompson. “The economy is hung by a thread – the accounts of jobs and pensions are suspended. Instead of taking responsibility for his failed policies and the course correction, he resuscitates a five -year lie in the hope that the Americans will not notice that they will go bankrupt and pay more to the grocery store. ”
Sentinelona told Cyberscoop that she would actively cooperate on any examination of security authorizations, which are held by “currently less than 10 employees”.
“We are a cybersecurity company – our mission is to defend customers, businesses and governments against cyberrencies by taking advantage of the most advanced artificial intelligence,” said a company spokesperson in a statement. “We consider the White House as a crucial collaborator on this mission, and we will continue to support a strong America at a time of increased geopolitical threats. Our team is to stay on the strength for good in this industry and in the world. We will continue to feed our partnerships in the American, military government and the community of intelligence and to collaborate in our shared mission to defend us critical infrastructure in cyber spatial cyber-spatials. ”.
Founded in 2013, Sentinelone presents itself as the “autonomous and most advanced cybersecurity platform in the world” in the world “in the world.” Society has a significant presence on the federal market.
Last July, he announced a partnership with CISA for the Agency Diagnostic and Monitoring (CDM) program. In September, he announced that its singularity platform and its singularity data product Genit Fedramp High Status, a designation which indicates that the company responded to the strict security requirements necessary to store, process and transmit sensitive government data.
Trump also suspended the security authorization of the former DHS staff member, Miles Taylor, who wrote an editorial and a book from the New York Times under the name of “Anonymous” pen, which criticized the president during his first mandate.
Another order suspended the security authorizations held by individuals from Susman Godfrey, a law firm who represented Dominion voting systems in a defamation trial against Fox News. Susman Godfrey’s lawyers reached a 787.5 million dollars regulation after Fox News and his commentators said on several occasions that the Voting Machines in Dominion were at the center of a vast conspiracy in the 2020 elections to steal the votes of President Donald Trump and swing them in his Democrat Challenger Joe Biden.
Update: April 10, 2025, 9:20 am: This story has been updated with the comments of Sentinelona and the representative Bennie Thompson.
