NSA employees offered deferred resignation, early retirement(therecord.media) |
NSA employees offered deferred resignation, early retirement(therecord.media) |
Remember the "Canadian Pharmacy" spamming 2000-2010? Right after the Soviet Union collapsed and all their spies and hackers were out on the street, with no prospects of a good job.
Also, you're assuming that there's a market for rootkits/implants, and "tailored access operations", rather than incident responders and checklist reviewers, which is what the giant bulk of corporate cyber security involves.
These agencies have not had a reduction since then and are oversized and wrongly sized.
The same issue faced the US Army prior to WWII. Roosevelt's solution was to find a young general (he found Marshal) and have him get rid of the dead wood because it was expected we'd be in a war in a couple of years.
Marshal created the "plucking commission" and got rid of a lot of dead wood. This put the US in a much better position to fight a war.