Long live the new Cybersecurity Czar!
A nice Christmas present wrapped up and delivered to the cybersecurity world. When we all started to doubt there will be a czar appointed in 2009, when all hopes were fading after months and months of delay (the initial announcement was made in May), the Obama administration finally chose Howard Schmidt to fill this position.
Schmidt is also a former member of the Bush administration and will be the leading star of the cybersecurity initiative, although experts fear the position does not come with any real power, says the Dark Reading. A little background info on the new czar:
Schmidt, who most recently served as president and CEO of the international nonprofit Information Security Forum and was previously chief information security officer at eBay and at Microsoft, said in a statement that he looks forward to bringing to the table all stakeholders in efforts to better secure U.S. networks and systems. He will work with the National Security Council and the National Economic Council.
Schmidt will have to settle all differences between the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, add a side of Deparment of Defense and other federal agencies involved in related projects, and serve a over common and effective US cybersecurity posture. And all this on a not so significant budget and with not so much power over these US security giants. We all wish him best of luck!
December 28th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
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