Paul Nakasone, former NSA boss, warns for the technology world
Trump administration Basic changes to US financial policies, foreign relations, and global strategy – along with widespread firing throughout the federal government – have created uncertainty on US cyber security priorities that have been displayed this week at the country’s two most prominent digital security conferences in Las Vegas. “We are not withdrawn, we are going ahead in a new direction,” said Robert Castello, head of the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency, during a major infrastructure board at Black Hat.
Like other parts of the federal government, the Trump administration is fighting intelligence and cyber security agencies to eliminate authorities as a distrust on its agenda. Alongside these shifts, the White House has also been hostile to former US cyber security officials. For example, in April, Trump specifically guided all departments and agencies to cancel the security clearance of former CISA chief Cris Karbas. And last week, after criticizing the extremist right -wing activist Laura Lumer, the Army’s secretary, canceled a university appointment that Jen and Easter was former CISA director in West Point. Among all, the former US National Security Agency and the head of the Paul Nagason Cyber Command spoke with Defcon founder on the stage on Friday, focusing on artificial intelligence, cybercrime and the importance of digital defense participation.
“I think we have now entered the world in the world where technology has become political and basically we are all in conflict,” Moss said at the beginning of the discussion. Nakasone, on the board of the Openai, agreed, citing January Trump’s launch of the “Stargate” AI infrastructure by Larry Ellison Oracle, the son of Massayoshi Softbank and Sam Altman Openai. “And then two days later, just by accident, [the Chinese generative AI platform] Deepseek came out, “Nakasone Deadped.” Amazing “.
Nakazon also reflected the population disputes between the US federal government and the technology sector.
“When I was the NSA manager and our cyber commander, I would go to the Gulf or go to Texas or Boston or other places to see technology,” he said. “And every place I went there was twice the age of people talking to me.
During the discussion, Nakason largely made statements to strive to counter traditional US competitors and opponents, including China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, as well as specific digital threats.
“Why don’t we think about ransom differently, which I think is now one of the great frustrations we have in our country,” he said. “We do not progress against ransomware.”
However, at times, Mas tried to move the conversation towards geopolitical changes and conflicts around the world, causing uncertainty and fear.
“How are you neutralized in this environment? Can you be neutral? Or the world environment since last year, Ukraine, Israel, Russia, Iran, just make your own choice, America – How does anyone remain neutral?” Moss asked at the beginning of the conversation. Later, he added, “I think because I am very stressed out of the chaos of the situation, I try to feel how I can control?”
Referring to these statements and remarks about turning to open -source software operating systems as a community alternative to multinational technology companies, Mas pointed out that the world and the entry into an unpleasant situation.
“This will be an interesting story we play through ’25 and ’26. When we back [to Defcon] Next year for this debate, can we still have this feeling, Oh, are we really neutral? I don’t feel like I think that would be very difficult. “
