http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/nsa-dominance-o.html By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com March 10, 2009 The government's national cybersecurity efforts would be in "grave peril" if they were dominated by the intelligence community, said Amit Yoran, former head of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division. Yoran told the House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, Science and Technology on Tuesday that although the Department of Homeland Security, which currently oversees the government's cybersecurity efforts, has demonstrated "inefficiency and leadership failure" in its cyber efforts, moving the cyber mission to the National Security Agency, as the Director of Intelligence recently advised Congress, "would be ill-advised" due to the agency's lack of transparency. Yoran, who served at one time as CEO of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, said a cyber program overseen by the NSA would be over-classified and lack adequate oversight and review, which is needed to gain the trust of the public and private-sector partners who will be needed to secure the nation's infrastructure. "One of the hard lessons learned from the Terrorist Surveillance Program, is that such a limited review can lead to ineffective legal vetting of a program," Yoran said. "The cyber mission cannot be plagued by the same flaws as the TSP." [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Mar 11 2009 - 00:10:26 PDT
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