Purdy Tapped as Cyber-Security Director

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>Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 04:50:15 -0500 (CDT)
>From: InfoSec News <isn@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Purdy Tapped as Cyber-Security Director
>
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12240-2004Oct6.html
>
>By Robert MacMillan
>washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
>October 6, 2004
>
>The Department of Homeland Security has filled the nation's top
>cyber-security post after the previous chief abruptly resigned last
>week in a move that raised questions about the Bush administration's
>commitment to protecting U.S. computer networks from electronic
>threats.
>
>Andy Purdy, who served as deputy cyber-security director under former
>National Cyber Security Division head and security industry
>entrepreneur Amit Yoran, will act as interim director, according to an
>e-mail written by Robert P. Liscouski, the department's head of
>infrastructure protection.
>
>Purdy has been a member of the cyber-security division since it was
>set up in 2003, and was the vice chairman and senior adviser on
>information technology issues for the President's Critical
>Infrastructure Protection Board. Before that, he was a member of the
>U.S. Sentencing Commission. He graduated from the College of William
>and Mary and the University of Virginia Law School, and also worked as
>a producer for NBC and CBS news programs.

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