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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.

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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.