Hathaway’s departure renews worries about cyberczar vacancy — Federal Computer Week James Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) technology and public policy program, said it’s not clear if there are any leading candidates for the job. The people the administration wants for the position don’t want the job, and the […]
The desire to create a Cyber Czar not only is delaying the pursuit of the President’s priorities; it is creating an artificial separation of the physical and cyber world when the industry and the market are clearly moving toward convergence of the two domains.
Melissa Hathaway’s decision to leave the Administration simply confirms what everyone already knows – the Obama Administration’s cybersecurity initiative is being strangled in its crib.
As Congress has been unusually busy on a range of fronts – health care, executive compensation, climate change, even “cash for clunkers” – one front that has been unusually quiet has been the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.
Cyber Security is not a new issue. We have grappled with security of all sorts for decades, and the protection of information and communications means did not start yesterday. But, to dismiss the changes that have occurred in the last few years in connectivity, in interdependence across sectors, and in threat levels to them as “nothing new”, is dangerously ludicrous.
DoD Buzz | Cyber Czar Job Goes Begging | Cyber Security Billions of new money to spend. Major new responsibilities at the senior-most reaches of the federal government. Sounds like a pretty good gig, doesn’t it? But as Kevin Coleman reports at Defense Tech, the job of cyber czar just can’t find a taker.
It’s clear to me that privacy remains the overriding concern of the Obama Administration as it continues to wrestle with Cyber Security.
If we stay “conservative” on cybersecurity, we will fail, as the adversaries we face are anything but. They are willing to try a thousand times to achieve one successful penetration. We have to be just as agile and versatile if we are to stay ahead of them. This will require open mindedness on an unprecedented level.
It seems that every time we have an incident, the cry goes up for “more and better”. Well, that does not work well with the Cyber space. If you are not steadily moving in a positive direction, you will go backward, and you never go fast.
The most recent attacks on numerous Cyber infrastructure targets have once again raised issues of the vulnerability of the US to this sort of attack. It is back on the front pages of newspapers, and back in the first few minutes on broadcast news. Several details of the attacks are illustrative and hopefully instructive.
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