Ex-CISA employee: 'This culture of fear started permeating the agency'
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the “culture of fear” began to permeate America’s top cyber-defense agency.
It wasn’t one particular incident, but rather a death by a thousand cuts, according to a former US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employee, who spoke to The Register on the condition that we don’t reveal their name.
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