{"id":21101,"date":"2020-01-15T23:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21101"},"modified":"2020-01-15T23:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T07:35:17","slug":"buttigieg-loses-cyber-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21101","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg loses cyber chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top cybersecurity official on former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s presidential campaign has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Baccio, who served as Buttigieg&#8217;s chief information security officer,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/indzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqnzccvv_ssvbmmvrvtbmspbvjmpb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/indzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqnzccvv_ssvbmmvrvtbmspbvjmpb.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1579246187522000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnWSSQpGyTgwc5iXi5IrwMbw530w\">told the news outlet CyberScoop<\/a>\u00a0that he left the campaign earlier this month due to &#8220;fundamental philosophical differences with the campaign management regarding the architecture and scope of the information security program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baccio&#8217;s resignation comes amid renewed concerns of foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. elections. Just this week,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jqqfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkqfnnjt_ssvbmmvrvtbmspbvjmpb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jqqfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkqfnnjt_ssvbmmvrvtbmspbvjmpb.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1579246187522000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEgKFmymWj0J-VDzZukkEN9xxK9-w\">The New York Times reported<\/a>\u00a0that Russian military officials hacked the Ukrainian gas company at the center of President Trump&#8217;s impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Baccio, a former cyber official in the Obama administration, was hired by Buttigieg&#8217;s campaign last summer to help protect it from hackers and other online threats. The hire made Buttigieg&#8217;s campaign the first to bring on a full-time staff member to oversee cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Baccio did not elaborate on the disagreements that led to his resignation when reached by The Hill. A spokesperson for Buttigieg confirmed that he had resigned and said that the campaign had retained a new security firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top cybersecurity official on former&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21102,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21101\/revisions\/21102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}