U.S. cybersecurity was bad during the first Trump administration. Somehow, it’s getting worse

Workforce cuts and vindictive treatment of former cybersecurity-agency directors have experts worried.

Eight months into the second Trump administration, what’s most striking about its cybersecurity policy is what’s missing: Much of the workforce of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, a permanent leader for the agency, and a public discussion about what the president did to its two previous directors.