Former Cisa Crebs chief leaves Sentinelone after Trump’s order

A week ago, President Donald Trump signed Executive order Earning for the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency Chris Krebs and urged the government to suspend the security of any organizations with which it is connected. The order is specifically named RoomyKrebs employer.

On Wednesday Krebs announced His resignation from Sentinelone, cybersecurity companies with a market cap of $ 5.6 billion. While the Crebs said the choice was only his, his quick departure – the last example of the effect, which Trump has on the private sector when it comes to the pressure of the people and the institutions he personally does not like.

Krebs held the post of main intelligence and state policy Sentinelone since the end of 2023 when the company purchased His consulting firm.

“For those who know me, you know that I am not evading fierce fighting,” Krebs wrote in an e -mail employee Sentinelone, which the company posted on its site. “But I also know that this is one I need to take the full – outside Sentinelone. It will require my full attention and energy. It is a struggle for democracy, for freedom of speech, and for the rule of law. I am ready to give it everything I have.”

Krebs held the post of first director of CISA since 2018 until he was fired in November 2020, saying that the presidential election, which, which Democrat Joe Biden Won, was “the safest in American history”. CISA is part of the Department of Internal Security.

In his executive order on April 9, which accepted an extraordinary approach to a particular person, Trump called Krebs “an actor of a bad seal who armed and abused his power.”

“The violation of the Krebs rules provided for censorship of an unfriendly speech, which means the election of 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemia,” the order reads. “Krebs, through Cisa, falsely and unjustifiably denied that the 2020 elections were stolen and stolen, including inappropriately and categorically deflection of a broad crime of elections and serious vulnerabilities with voice machines.”

Trump has ordered the Attorney General, the director of the national intelligence and “all other relevant agencies” to suspend “any active security registrations conducted by the Cresbami -related countries, including Sentinelone, or correspond to such gaps with national interests.”

The Wall Street Journal first reported Krebs’ retreat from Sentinelone, posing a story on Wednesday on an interview with Krebs. He said Journal What he came off to repel Trump’s efforts “to follow corporate interests and corporate relations.”

Sentinelone requirements are reminiscent of companies that President Trump is against law firms and universities he tried to make significant changes in how they work or lost state contracts or financing.

Sentinelone that uses artificial intelligence to detect the threat and prevent cyberattacks, does not reveal how much its profit from the government. But the company recognizes in the risk factors section of its financial reports that it relies on government agencies for some of its businesses and can be damaged by changes in politics.

“Our future growth is partly dependent on the increase in sales of state organizations,” the latter A quarterly filing – he says. Specific for Trump, Sentinelone said the creation of the government’s efficiency department that Elon Musk Works, can lead to changes in budget that “adversely affect the financing and purchase of our platform by state organizations.”

Sentinelone CEO Tomer Weingarten told staff in the note, also posted on the company website on Wednesday that Krebs “helped to form important conversations and strengthen state cooperation”. The company previously stated that in a blog report after the executive order that less than 10 employees had security registration.

“Accordingly, we do not expect that it will significantly affect our business,” the statement reads.

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