Cyber Scoop: NSA’s best are ‘leaving in big numbers,’ insiders sayLow morale at the National Security Agency is causing some of the agency’s most talented people to leave in favor of private sector jobs, former NSA Director Keith Alexander told a room full of journalism students, professors and cybersecurity executives Tuesday. The retired general and other insiders say a combination of economic and social factors — including negative press coverage — have played a part.
“I do hear that people are increasingly leaving in large numbers and it is a combination of things that start with [morale] and there’s now much more money on the outside,” Alexander said. “I am honestly surprised that some of these people in cyber companies make up to seven figures. That’s five times what the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff makes. Right? And these are people that are 32 years old.”
“Do the math. [The NSA] has great competition,” he said.
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WNU editor: Money, morale, different opportunities .... why work for an organisation when better opportunities are elsewhere.
2 comments:
NSA trains them. they work a bit. Then cross the street for private stuff, pretty much the same work, funded by our govt., and get a heck of a lot more pay. We continue to outsource so much to private well paying sector. Snowden, after all, is good example of this.
Fred,
That's a pretty good assessment. We may disagree a little on Snowden's
reasons to go, but the above is it, in a nutshell.
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