[ISN] Richard Clarke to lead homeland security consulting firm

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Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 01:33:58 PDT

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    By DAN VERTON 
    JULY 11, 2003
    Computerworld
    
    WASHINGTON -- Richard A. Clarke, the former special adviser to the
    president for cybersecurity, has joined Arlington, Va.-based Good
    Harbor Consulting LLC as chairman.
    
    Clarke joins Roger Cressey, president of the firm, who served as
    Clarke's chief of staff at the President's Critical Infrastructure
    Protection Board and before that as the director for Transnational
    Threats on the National Security Council.
    
    Good Harbor Consulting plans to target a wide range of corporate
    clients, from the Fortune 500 to small technology start-ups, providing
    strategic consulting services in the areas of homeland security,
    cybersecurity, protection of critical infrastructure and
    counterterrorism.
    
    John Tritak, former director of the Commerce Department's Critical
    Infrastructure Assurance Office and a longtime government thought
    leader on cybersecurity issues, has also joined the firm as its CEO,
    said Good Harbor.
    
    In addition to the core team of Clarke, Cressey and Tritak, the
    company will rely on what Cressey calls a "network of subject matter
    experts" and has been negotiating a partnership for the past several
    weeks with another major security consulting business.
    
    Cressey and Clarke plan to focus on four key areas: strategic
    planning, product and business strategy evaluation, partnership
    opportunities and strategic security risk assessment.
    
    "For too many companies, Washington is a jumble of acronyms and an
    indecipherable procurement maze," according to the company's new
    mission statement. "Good Harbor uses its unique combination of
    experience in the halls of government and with the information
    technology industry to provide clients with partnership opportunities
    to better negotiate the U.S. government space and the critical
    infrastructure vertical markets."
    
    Howard Schmidt, a former White House colleague of both Clarke and
    Cressey who is now chief security officer at eBay Inc., called the new
    venture a "natural progression" for Clarke and Cressey, given the
    years the two spent working together in government. When asked about
    his own plans, Schmidt said he also had considered going into private
    practice as a consultant and may still do so on a part-time basis.
    
    Clarke announced in January that he was stepping down from his
    cybersecurity role in the U.S. government, ending a career at the
    National Security Council that had spanned three administrations. His
    career was characterized by a concerted effort to enhance the
    government's relationship with the private-sector operators of
    critical infrastructure.
    
    Shortly after leaving government, he testified at a congressional
    hearing that he didn't think the Bush administration was moving fast
    enough in organizing the National Cyber Security Center.  Clarke also
    called on Congress to fund vulnerability scanning sensors on all
    federal networks, and he recommended that federal agencies outsource
    cybersecurity projects and withhold money from vendors if the agencies
    get failing cybersecurity grades.
    
    
    
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