[mhh__]

When you have the President firing people (Director of DHS Cybersecurity ring any bells?) for not playing his insane games, does the apple fall far from the tree?

If you think the president needs to actually "understand" anything subtle like (even physical) security, you are being deliberately obtuse or naive.

[IndPhysiker]

It is pretty reasonable to say that managers need to have at least a cursory understanding of the business they are managing. That doesn't mean anyone expects a president to take a direct hand in selection of components for a security infrastructure, but rather have an appreciation that information security is quite serious and put competent managers in place over those decisions. Even a Director level position in any location in government is still rather far removed from the decision process as their purview typically includes HR, budgeting, procurement, regulatory oversight, and somewhere further down the pole is the actual work. That isn't naivete but reality of how this bureaucracy works.

[_y5hn]

With fear-based toxic culture, nobody reports anything and you get USSR and Chernobyl the series.

[_-david-_]

This hack happened prior to the firing.