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(Scoop News Group) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"28.939918809202\"><body readability=\"58.649363057325\"><\/p>\n<p>Rob Joyce, the veteran National Security Agency official, is retiring at the end of March after 34 years at the spy agency, leaving the federal government without one of its most experienced cybersecurity experts going into a critical election year and amid warnings that China is carrying out unprecedented cyber operations against U.S. critical infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Joyce has established himself as an unusually public-facing official at the historically secretive NSA. In his current role as head of the agency\u2019s Cybersecurity Directorate, Joyce has pushed a spy agency once known as \u201cNo Such Agency\u201d to improve intelligence-sharing on cyberthreats and better collaborate with critical infrastructure providers and industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRob\u2019s leadership of the agency\u2019s critical cybersecurity mission has been exemplary,\u201d NSA Director General Timothy D. Haugh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/Press-Room\/Press-Releases-Statements\/Press-Release-View\/Article\/3681065\/national-security-agency-announces-retirement-of-cybersecurity-director\/\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cHis vision and development of the CSD team and its capacities ensures that NSA\u2019s cybersecurity mission is healthy and will continue to be successful in protecting our allies and national systems well into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Luber, deputy director of the CSD and a 36-year NSA veteran, will take over for Joyce.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At a 2022 CyberScoop event in Washington, Joyce <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/rob-joyce-nsa-cyber-intel-sharing\/\">spoke<\/a> about the need for the NSA to shift away from its historical secrecy and instead \u201cmake available the insights about what we know without putting at risk how we know it. That\u2019s really an inflection point that lets us get to more prolific, more extensive and more closely sharing for operational outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t do anybody any good if we know a thing and don\u2019t do something,\u201d Joyce continued. \u201c<em>Doing<\/em> is really the focus in the cybersecurity area. And if you\u2019ve got secrets and understanding and you don\u2019t operationalize those, they don\u2019t count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joyce spoke frequently in recent years about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/searchsecurity\/news\/252521338\/Rob-Joyce-China-represents-biggest-long-term-cyberthreat\">threats that Chinese hackers<\/a> posed to the U.S., particularly with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-rejects-claim-it-is-spying-western-critical-infrastructure-2023-05-25\/\">regard to critical infrastructure<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>During an appearance last month at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University, however, Joyce <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/ai-china-hacking-operations\/\">sounded a relatively optimistic note<\/a> on how the NSA and other agencies have successfully leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning to better combat Chinese hacking operations that might have previously side-stepped the more tried-and-true defensive approaches. <\/p>\n<p>Joyce joined the NSA in 1989 and served in multiple roles over his nearly three and a half decades at Fort Meade. He led the agency\u2019s elite hacking unit \u2014 Tailored Access Operations \u2014 between 2013 and 2017. During the Trump administration, he served a stint in the White House as a senior cybersecurity advisor before returning to the NSA, including as a special liaison officer at the U.S. Embassy in London. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI am honored to have served for over 34 years at the National Security Agency,\u201d Joyce said in a statement. \u201cIt has been a privilege to lead the nation\u2019s most talented and dedicated team of cybersecurity professionals. 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