[pchelpers] Article:Obama Should Scrap Cybersecurity Czar, Analyst Says

Gartner expert says president's plan to protect nation's computing
infrastructure won't work.

By K.C. Jones 
InformationWeek
May 28, 2009 12:38 PM 

As President Obama prepares to name a cybersecurity czar, an influential
tech analyst said the White House should create a federal chief
information security office instead. 

The news comes amid InformationWeek's exclusive report Thursday that
hackers have infiltrated servers operated by the U.S. Army.

"The bottom line is that increasing the national cybersecurity is an
operations issue," John Pescatore, VP and analyst at Gartner, said in a
statement. "The problems are well-understood, solutions are known, and
gaps have been identified. Organizations with high security in private
industry and government almost invariably have a strong security office
and a chief information security officer (CISO), and that should be the
model that the U.S. government follows."

More here:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/federal/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217700656&subSection=Security+Reviews
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