{"id":227880,"date":"2026-03-26T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/former-nsa-chiefs-worry-american-offensive-edge-in-cybersecurity-is-slipping\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:23:00","slug":"former-nsa-chiefs-worry-american-offensive-edge-in-cybersecurity-is-slipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/former-nsa-chiefs-worry-american-offensive-edge-in-cybersecurity-is-slipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NSA chiefs worry American offensive edge in cybersecurity is slipping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NSA chiefs worry American offensive edge in cybersecurity is slipping<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-26 13:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 <\/strong>Four former National Security Agency directors shared varying concerns about a lack of earnest and widespread response to growing threats in cyberspace during a discussion at the RSAC 2026 Conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Accelerating threats posed by artificial intelligence, China and cybercriminals at large are testing the country\u2019s resolve and determination to foster meaningful public-private collaboration, the former commanders of U.S. Cyber Command said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the four-star military officials remain confident in the country\u2019s resources and people committed to defending the nation from cyberattacks, they voiced unease about challenges that could upend technological dominance and diminish a collective response to serious intrusions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve become numb to it,\u201d retired Gen. Paul Nakasone said. \u201cWe continue to see these different intrusions, and intrusions have gotten to a size that the scale is just incredible to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nation and industry aren\u2019t keeping up with adversaries amid a brain drain across the U.S. government,\u00a0 the founding director of Vanderbilt University\u2019s Institute of National Security said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve lost ground with regards to our outreach to the private sector\u201d within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative and NSA\u2019s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, Nakasone said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Mike Rogers also criticized the U.S. government for areas of inaction and decay. \u201cI see a government that\u2019s unwilling to expend political capital to really drive fundamental change in cyber, and it\u2019s a reflection of the fact that politically we are so divided, and as a society we are so divided,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the largest economy in the world. We don\u2019t have a single federal privacy framework. We don\u2019t have a single major piece of cyber legislation,\u201d Rogers added. \u201cThat frustrates the hell out of…
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