Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) was critical of the cyber coordinator’s placement in the executive branch on Tuesday. The OPM is crowd-sourcing an online tool to recruit managers. The open government ball kept on rolling. By Light and InZero are teaming up to fight cyber attacks. Melissa Hathaway joined Core Security Technologies’ Advisory Board. Donna Morea [...]
The White House has named Howard Schmidt to the position of cybersecurity coordinator. In this role, Schmidt will serve on the president’s economic council and National Security staff with direct access to the president. He will look to coordinate a national approach to cyber security issues. Schmidt was previously the president and CEO of the [...]
The announcement of cyber coordinator may be near. At least that’s what a source tells Federal Times. And it’s a toss-up between two contenders — ISF President Howard Schmidt and former Assistant Defense Secretary Frank Kramer. The source goes on to say the announcement may come around Thanksgiving — effectively ending speculation that’s persisted since [...]
Three months after President Obama promised — and has yet to deliver on his word — to appoint a cybersecurity czar, all is not lost on the cyber front. That was Melissa Hathaway’s takeaway in her first public speaking engagement since resigning as Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace on National Security Council and Homeland Security [...]
CYBERSECURITY | The other day, industry experts weighed in here about the consequences of the White House delaying announcement of the cyber security coordinator. Some, like Amit Yoran, have argued that it’s best the White House take its time. (“Speed of search is a factor, but much less so in the long run …” said [...]
CYBERSECURITY | Back in July, we mentioned that announcement of the cyber coordinator appeared imminent. Now, even ExecutiveBiz is beginning to wonder. And so are some industry experts. “It’s been four months without a pick, so it may be time to try a lottery among all registered voters in the district,” quips Jim Lewis of [...]
Back in May, President Obama stated he would appoint a cyber coordinator to help “orchestrate and integrate all cybersecurity policies.” That was then, this is now; we’re still waiting. Amid speculation about possible candidates and the resignation of acting cyber czar Melissa Hathaway, the guessing game continues. For Jim Lewis of Center for Strategic and [...]
