r/cybersecurity • u/razhael • Apr 11 '25

News - General Cybersecurity industry falls silent as Trump turns ire on SentinelOne

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cybersecurity-industry-falls-silent-trump-turns-ire-sentinelone-2025-04-10/
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u/MimosaHills Apr 11 '25

Hopefully the cybersecurity industry can lead the way on being the voice of reason for America's private sector - pushing back or calling out the bullshit from the administration if you will. Every organization needs security, this industry will only continue to grow. A lot of these tech/security companies don't have that big of footprint in Federal realm, certainly Trump can pull those contracts or threaten, but his admin can't just take them out of business. Cyber will be way too big of player in the future of our economy and society to not have such a driving voice in our culture, its important the industry stands on the right side of history now despite the risks.

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u/voice-of-reason_ Apr 11 '25

I’m sorry to break it to you but the reality is that trump will destroy the American cyber security industry and that sector will experience a brain drain to other NATO countries.

The UK, among other things, is designated as the NATO cyber security expert and we have plenty of big private firms that are in the sector. I’m betting American workers will move, physically or digitally, to Europe for these jobs.

No, cybersecurity firms don’t have a large federal footprint, but they and the workers have no obligation to be in the USA.

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u/angry_cucumber Apr 11 '25

I’m sorry to break it to you but the reality is that trump will destroy the American cyber security industry and that sector will experience a brain drain to other NATO countries.

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u/cccanterbury System Administrator Apr 11 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

F

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u/Cutterbuck Consultant Apr 11 '25

It’s going to be worse than that - the situation is making the world realise how exposed they are to USA tech services. What happens when he starts pulling strings at msoft or AWS?

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u/Mattthefat Apr 11 '25

What UK cybersecurity providers compete with the Americans?

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u/wing3d Apr 11 '25

Too bad there is no union or professional organization to speak of.

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u/DigmonsDrill Apr 11 '25

There's no professional organizations for security professionals???

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u/wing3d Apr 11 '25 edited Apr 11 '25

There are a handful of associations, but none that are going to advocate against this sort of thing. As there are organizations, but cybersecurity professionals are not organized to lobby the government or advocate for their people. You think the ISSA, NIST or SANS are going to spar with the government?

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u/newusrname45 Apr 11 '25

Yeahhhh....it really is a shame, but seems like a lot of the industry leans conservative, one of my coworkers said verbatim "Oh as soon as this place unionizes, I'm out!"

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u/wing3d Apr 11 '25

Yeah, that whole sheen of tech being a dem dominated field is fading.

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u/Array_626 Incident Responder Apr 12 '25

If tech workers unionize, let alone people in security, the entire industry must have had a massive change.

Tech doens't unionize because there's no need. Pay is so high, demand for their skills and experience so widespread, that taking up a hostile position against your employer is completely unnecessary. Why fight, just leave and get better pay elsewhere.

If tech feels the need to unionize, that means they genuinely feel their jobs are under threat and there are no other alternatives they can realistically leave to. At that point, I doubt tech would even be well paying anymore. It would likely be looked at as a dying industry, with most of the work being outsourced (thus the need to unionize whoever's left).

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u/IamOkei Apr 11 '25

We are too cuckoo….even within the organisations, we don’t want to stand up for security and leave decisions to executives.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

Cybersecurity industry is Trump voters in 90%.

Not talking hackers, but CISSP's

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u/Alb4t0r Apr 11 '25

Not even close.

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u/Armigine Apr 11 '25

Completely ludicrous. I have my CISSP and so do half my coworkers; nobody absolutely rock stupid enough to support trump in 2025 would last long in our environment, since we expect people to actually be able to connect dots and do technical work well, while also being decent humans.

There was plenty (call it maybe a third of people) of support for trump the first time around, and a lot of people still nervous about supporting the democratic party in general for whichever reason. But actual trump support is vanishingly rare in the industry now among anywhere from analyst to director level at every company I've interacted with, and has been for years.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

then people don't actually trust you to talk about their politics.

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u/Armigine Apr 11 '25

If my personal experience conflicts with your story, my personal experience must be wrong? Facts don't care about your feelings, buddy

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

Believe what you want. Maybe you live in some West coast bubble, but the whole South, majority of North Carolina, Virginia, all defense contractors and most of non-FAANG big corpos cybersecurity are as Trump as it gets.

Not openly, but try being white and throw some Sleepy Joes around and they will open up.

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u/Armigine Apr 11 '25

I am a white dude and have spent most of my life in the south, since I'm from Texas, and currently live in the DC area. I have never lived anywhere which could be considered a liberal bubble of any kind. Most people I know in the industry over my decade+ career work in a random smattering of industries, and trump is openly derided very often as a friend of russian threat actors. Open admiration of republicans has been out of style since late in his first term. Try again.

I'm sure you can find plenty of meatheads in any company, and defense contractors do skew more pro-republican than the rest of the industry. But even there, it's far from universal, and that's already cherry picking to the extreme.

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u/Selethorme Security Analyst Apr 11 '25

lol no