Manfra, Jeanette
Google Global Director of Security, Jan 2020 – present.
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, Nov 2018 – Jan
2020. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National
Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD, precursor to CISA)
Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, Jul 2017 – Nov
2018. Previously worked for Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH, Booz).
See
IT
Hiring: Government, Business, and the Revolving Door
in
Principles of IT
Incompetence.
No IT education. An
IT education is the most important IT credential and
Manfra only has a Bachelor of Arts in history and a Master of
Arts in international relations.
$171,291 was Manfra's annual salary as of Feb 2019,
while she was at CISA, according to my FOIA request to the
U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is
outrageous. Many doctors and lawyers don't make that much
and, unlike Manfra, they are at least qualified; by law they
have to be. At Google, Manfra is making a lot more than that.
She used CISA as a stepping stone; see
CISA:
No Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Just a Stepping Stone for IT
Incompetents.
From
Handing
Over America's Electrical Grid to the Russians:
So who is protecting America's electrical grid from its
greatest threat, state-sponsored foreign
hackers?
The National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) is
part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is
tasked with protecting America's physical infrastructure,
particularly its electrical grid, and its cyber
infrastructure, particularly its Internet. In short,
everything I have discussed above ... and was more qualified
to do so than anybody in the NPPD.
The NPPD official responsible for cybersecurity is Assistant
Secretary for Cybersecurity Jeanette
Manfra. Under Obama she held several DHS positions but
lost her job when Trump became president in January 2017.
She was out of work for 6 months before becoming Assistant
Secretary in July 2017, which is surprising since she is
probably a Trump hater and President Trump values
loyalty.
Before the DHS, Jeanette Manfra worked for Booz Allen
Hamilton, the NSA contractor that gave us IT incompetent
traitor Edward
Snowden, now living in Russia, and others like him.
Snowden was a high school dropout who easily passed the
background check to get into the NSA, specifically to hack
it, which he easily did.
Jeanette Manfra's only education is a BA in History and an MA
in International Relations. In other words, Manfra has zero
IT education — see
The
Most Important IT Credential: An IT Education in
Principles of IT
Incompetence — and zero electrical engineering
education. Yet she is in charge of America's cybersecurity
and so electrical grid security.
...
Jeanette Manfra is not even smart enough to protect her own
family. She posts her maiden name, location, photos of her
children, and a list of her parents/siblings/cousin, with
photos, on her Facebook page. For those in security,
especially higher-ups, that is dangerous
stupidity.
Jeanette Manfra will be the next Anatoly Dyatlov and be
responsible for a disaster worse than Chernobyl: the
takeover of America's electrical grid by the
Russians.
From
Booz
Hacks Fed IT, Makes It Incompetent, Insecure, Bankrupt:
Jeanette Manfra is Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary for
Cybersecurity. She has no IT education, only a BA in
history and an MA in international relations. Manfra is
part of DHS's National Protection and Programs Directorate
(NPPD), which is tasked with protecting America's physical
infrastructure, particularly its electrical grid, and its
cyber infrastructure, particularly its Internet. I've
written about her in Handing
Over America's Electrical Grid to the Russians. She has
probably already risked national security by letting Facebook
and its hackers read all her email. She doesn't know enough
about cybersecurity to protect her own family — she
posts her maiden name, location, photos of her children, and
a list of her parents/siblings/cousin, with photos, on her
Facebook page. Manfra is a former Booz employee and a
future Booz executive.
From
CISA:
No Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Just a Stepping Stone for IT
Incompetents:
Back in April 2018 I wrote Handing
Over America's Electrical Grid to the Russians, in which
I asked and answered, "So who is protecting America's
electrical grid from its greatest threat, state-sponsored
foreign hackers?"
The answer then was Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Secretary for
Cybersecurity, under the National Protection and Programs
Directorate (NPPD), precursor to CISA, of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeanette Manfra is IT incompetent, having no IT education;
see
The
Most Important IT Credential: An IT Education in
Principles of IT
Incompetence.
Before joining NPPD in July 2017, Manfra worked for Booz
Allen Hamilton, the IT incompetent NSA (National
Security Agency) contractor that let its IT incompetent
(high school dropout) employee Edward
Snowden, now living in Russia, hack the NSA; see 9/11
Was Due to IT Incompetence. Jeanette Manfra was added to the Government
and Business IT Incompetents
Hall Of Shame when I wrote Handing
Over America's Electrical Grid to the
Russians.
In November 2018 President Donald Trump elevated the mission
of the NPPD and it became CISA, still under DHS, and
Jeanette Manfra's title became Assistant Director for
Cybersecurity.
Finding any evidence of infrastructure hacking on her watch
would have been a career-threatening embarrassment —
breaking her stepping stone (a version of the government-business
revolving door) — so Jeanette Manfra would not
have even if she was capable of doing so. IT incompetent
Jeanette Manfra left CISA in January 2020 to become,
incredibly, Google's
Global Director of Security, where she is making a lot more
money than the already outrageous $171,291 salary she made
at CISA. While this was yet another Google diversity hire
— see IT
Hiring: Trading IT Competence for Diversity in
Principles of IT
Incompetence — more importantly it was for Google
to profit from Manfra's government connections. This hiring
was probably in violation of Title 18 (crimes and criminal
procedure) of U.S. Code, § 207 (restrictions on former
officers, employees, and elected officials of the executive
and legislative branches), a law written exactly to prevent
such hirings; see IT
Hiring: IT Incompetence Breeds Disloyalty and Corruption
in
Principles of IT
Incompetence.