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In IT? Need cash? Cybersecurity whistleblowers are earning big payouts, in fraud cases brought by the US government
The US government now relies on whistleblowers to bring many cases.
In his Penn State position, Decker was well placed to see that the university was not implementing all of the cybersecurity controls that were required by its various contracts with NASA and the Department of Defense (DoD). Today, it has become the tool of choice to prosecute cyber-failures regarding government contractors, largely because of the Act's robust whistleblower rules (technically known as its "qui tam" provisions). In the other, James Glenn sued Cisco over a video surveillance product that had known security flaws and yet was sold to numerous government agencies.
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