Tech | May 26, 2009 | 13 comments

Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502104.html

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President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.

The adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council but will report to the national security adviser as well as the senior White House economic adviser, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations are not final.

The announcement will coincide with the long-anticipated release of a 40-page report that evaluates the government's cybersecurity initiatives and policies. The report is intended to outline a "strategic vision" and the range of issues the new adviser must handle, but it will not delve into details, administration officials told reporters last month.
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13 comments // Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar

  • zichi
  • nursediesel
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  

    • OK, you Obama KoolAde drinkers, still celebrating his election to be "Dear Leader"? Didn't think so. You wanted government to control your life, you got it! Now you can all go cry in your beer. (excuse me, your chardonnay.)

    • 3 years ago
  • spartin86
  • MiguelSanchez
  • ProgressiveBum
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      ProgressiveBum  

    • While I do believe our national network needs an overhaul, the fact is that end users are the biggest security threat. Such as people failing to lock down their systems and inadvertently become part of a botnet. Others who click on any link just because it's there, or who download wallpapers, screensavers, emoticons, or freeware, accepting the EULA without reading it. Buried in all that legalese you can find language describing how you give up your privacy by installing the code.
      Nationally, I'd like to see the network protocol switched from IPv4 to IPv6.

    • 3 years ago
  • sickinjersey
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • I thought this was an individual's responsibility. So now the government will be monitoring our computers?
      This better be for stopping these geeks that send out worms and viruses as well, as scam artists that use people's info to steal ID's etc.
      I just see the possibility of so many bad things...
      Then again the older one gets the more one questions motives of the government and the people in government.
      There's always potential for misuse!

    • 3 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • "a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks"

      You mean they aren't protected now? Is this really for cybersecurity or cyberspying? I mean come on, that's the NSA's forte isn't it? Just what we need, another "czar."

    • 3 years ago
  • cybexg
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      cybexg  
    • JanforGore:

      No, they are NOT really protected right now. At best, cyber security is in its infancy, there are many different and inconsistent operating systems, inconsistent and varying protection mechanisms, etc. In fact, it is so problematic that there are only a few systems that military consider very secure...And those systems lack any connectivity to other, more integrated systems.

    • 3 years ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  

    • Czar again! Can't America come up with a new title? Czar here, Czar there, Czar, Czar everywhere. What's with the title Czar everywhere (in America)? Doesn't anyone remember history? Czar in America, just sounds un-American.

      Since the introduction of the title 'Drug Czar', we now have more people in prison, than any other country in the world and no one seems concerned. Many, many people are in prison in America, due to drugs.

      Reasoned thought went out the window, while spin and disinformation enabled the war on drugs, due to a 'Czar'. 'Drug Czar' silenced the voices of reason in the war on drugs. Will a 'cybersecurity czar' silence of voices of reason on the web?

    • 3 years ago
  • Prijedor
  • current89
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