<story><title>Cyber Attack, Possible Serious Breach, at U.S. State Department</title><url>https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1429173367643516936</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvector</author><text>The state department, hell, a big portion of the entire government is a joke when it comes to cybersecurity.&lt;p&gt;This comes with the turf of refusing to pay competitive compensation. I&amp;#x27;d personally love to help secure the government, but I&amp;#x27;m not going to take a massive hit in QoL just for a sense of patriotism.&lt;p&gt;During the Black Hat 2021 closing keynote, the Secretary of Homeland Security was begging for more cybersecurity engineers to join the government, but there was no acknowledgement of the compensation problem, which is one of their biggest roadblocks. It makes zero sense to whine about getting hacked while paying a fifth of the compensation of private industry. The government ought to put up or shut up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OminousWeapons</author><text>You see the same issues across government. I remember listening to Francis Collins, the head of the NIH, talk about the major problems in academic life sciences at my University. He opened by saying he wasn&amp;#x27;t there to talk about comp or funding which was amusing considering that every problem in the space ultimately tracks back to hilariously inadequate funding and comp.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cyber Attack, Possible Serious Breach, at U.S. State Department</title><url>https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1429173367643516936</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvector</author><text>The state department, hell, a big portion of the entire government is a joke when it comes to cybersecurity.&lt;p&gt;This comes with the turf of refusing to pay competitive compensation. I&amp;#x27;d personally love to help secure the government, but I&amp;#x27;m not going to take a massive hit in QoL just for a sense of patriotism.&lt;p&gt;During the Black Hat 2021 closing keynote, the Secretary of Homeland Security was begging for more cybersecurity engineers to join the government, but there was no acknowledgement of the compensation problem, which is one of their biggest roadblocks. It makes zero sense to whine about getting hacked while paying a fifth of the compensation of private industry. The government ought to put up or shut up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Seattle3503</author><text>For me the issue is that I&amp;#x27;d probably need to move to the East coast and work in a government office environment. I&amp;#x27;d rather stay on the West coast.</text></comment>