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    Vendetta: Trump revokes IT security company's security clearances The IT security company SentinelOne has hired the former head of CISA. Trump has now withdrawn the company's security clearances.

    US President Donald Trump has revoked the security clearances of the renowned IT security company SentinelOne. His arbitrary style of government is now also affecting the IT security industry. SentinelOne had hired Chris Krebs, then head of the US IT security agency CISA, who was appointed by Trump during his first term in office. As Reuters reports, the US president resents Krebs for not supporting Trump's false claims of alleged voter fraud in the 2020 US elections during his time in office. As Krebs did not support the myth of the "election stolen by Joe Biden", Trump fired him on Twitter in 2020. "Suppression of conservative views"

    According to Reuters, a White House memo discussing the matter states that Trump accused the Republican Krebs of "suppressing conservative views". The memo does not provide any evidence – or any indication of what SentinelOne had to do with the matter. Reuters goes on to say that Krebs' refusal to support Trump's false claims about the election made him a hero in Washington IT circles. Now, however, support for Krebs or SentinelOne from the IT security industry is not apparent in light of Trump's actions. The founder of Luta Security, Katie Moussouris, said she doubted the industry would publicly support SentinelOne in light of the White House's actions. "I don't think it's feasible for cybersecurity companies to have a broader public response to this," she said, "the risk is just too great." Reuters asked a total of 33 of the largest US IT security companies about the Trump action against SentinelOne – Only one responded, the rest declined to respond or did not respond at all. These include really big IT companies such as Microsoft, where Krebs worked from 2014 to 2017, and Crowdstrike. The only group that responded was the Washington-based Cyber Threat Alliance. Its chairman, Michael Daniel, said: "Targeting a company because the president doesn't like someone at that company is an example of the very misuse of the federal government as a weapon that the memo purports to combat." SentinelOne said it did not expect the restrictions to materially affect its business. However, its share price fell 7 percent on Thursday. An IT security executive, who wished to remain anonymous, said Trump had silenced the IT security industry. "If they're willing to crush Krebs, what do you think they're going to do to me or others like me?" Krebs himself did not issue a statement, but posted his statement again on social media after the 2020 resignation: "We are honored to serve. We did it right. Defending today, securing tomorrow."

    The current US president is keeping the world on tenterhooks with his arbitrary, sometimes autocratic government actions. For example, only a few hours after the tariffs on various countries came into force, they were suspended again, initially leading to heavy stock market losses, a brief recovery and ultimately to an unstable situation.