http://www.fcw.com/online/news/154587-1.html By Ben Bain FCW.com December 8, 2008 The upcoming Obama administration should establish a new office in the White House to manage cybersecurity, a commission comprised of a wide-range of experts and two lawmakers said today. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency [1] recommended that a new office in the Executive Office of the President - which would be named the National Office for Cyberspace. NOC would work with a new cybersecurity directorate, which would be part of the National Security Council (NSC), to develop and manage a comprehensive national security strategy for cyber space, the commission recommended. A new assistant to the president would direct NOC, which could be established by merging the existing National Center for Cybersecurity and the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force, the commission recommended. “Cyberspace is now a major national security issue,” wrote the panel, whose co-chairmen include Reps. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas). “The United States should treat it as such, following the precedent” of weapons of mass destruction and nonproliferation. Langevin and McCaul are chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Homeland Security Committee's Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology Subcommittee. [1] http://www.csis.org/tech/cyber/ [...] _______________________________________________ Help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Tue Dec 09 2008 - 00:19:40 PST
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