If you’re feeling numb to the endless cycle of data breaches and hacks, you aren’t alone.
At the RSAC 2026 Conference in San Francisco, four former directors for the US’s National Security Agency gave their view on today’s cyberthreats, including whether the American public “even cares about cyber anymore?”
“So I think we’ve become numb to it,” said Paul Nakasone, the former NSA director who served from 2018 to 2024.
“I think we continue to see these different intrusions and the intrusions have gotten to a size that the scale is just too incredible to me. And I think that we are out of balance in terms of being able to keep up with the adversary,” he later added.
His predecessor, former NSA director Mike Rogers, shared a similar view. “I think for society, we are just becoming so numb to this. We are starting to accept this in some ways as the price of living in the digital age.”
Even though the US is the largest economy in the world, Rogers noted the country still lacks a federal data privacy law and has struggled to pass major cybersecurity-related legislation. “I see a government that’s unwilling to spend political capital to really drive fundamental change in cyber,” he added. “And it’s a reflection of the fact that politically we are so divided and as a society we are so divided.”
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Source: PC Magazine