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Trump officials consider skipping premier cyber conference after Biden-era cyber leader named CEO<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-01-15 21:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nTop Trump administration cyber officials are in discussions to cancel their attendance at the RSAC Conference\u00a0taking place in San Francisco in March after a top Biden-era cyber leader was named CEO of the event, according to multiple former officials and other people with knowledge of the matter.Officials in the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, National Security Council and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency discussed potential plans to no longer attend after Jen Easterly, the former CISA director under President Joe Biden, was named CEO of the RSAC Conference on Thursday, said the former officials and the people.All sources for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity because the conversations aren\u2019t public. They stressed that plans might change, but noted the discussions likely originated from the White House, which would have the\u00a0final say over conference attendance.\u00a0Easterly became a target of Trump ally and far-right activist Laura Loomer last year when she flagged Easterly\u2019s plans to return to West Point as the new Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair in its Department of Social Sciences.Loomer said at the time that Easterly \u201cbrought in\u201d Nina Jankowicz, a former DHS official who ran the now\u2011shuttered Disinformation Governance Board, casting her as part of a network of officials she accused of working against President Donald Trump. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said soon after that Easterly\u2019s offer was rescinded and that he would be pausing outside groups from selecting academy employees and instructors.The RSAC Conference is one of the world\u2019s largest cybersecurity forums, and has long been\u00a0hailed as a convening hub for cybersecurity officials and private sector firms vying for business with the government. It also brings together many international cyber officials who frequently meet behind the scenes with American counterparts to discuss overseas cybersecurity matters.The discussions on not attending RSAC began just hours after the conference officially announced Easterly as CEO, the people familiar said. The move underscores the Trump administration\u2019s effort to tightly police how current officials engage with industry events tied to former senior leaders, especially those in the crosshairs of the current White House.A conference spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. Nextgov\/FCW has also asked the White House and Easterly for comment.\u00a0In an interview with WIRED about her appointment as CEO, Easterly said that cybersecurity \u201cis not a political endeavor, RSAC is certainly not a political organization, and I am not a political person. I am a lifelong independent.\u201dLast year, top NSA and Cyber Command officials were pulled from RSAC engagements shortly after President Donald Trump fired the former director of the two organizations.This story is breaking and may be updated.<\/p>\n

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