http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2012/07/security-trust/56575/ By Aliya Sternstein Nextgov.com July 2, 2012 A decade ago, when Rick Dakinmet parents at his son’s grade school who said they worked for the "government" --and declined to expand -- it meant they were agents. Dakin, a security consultant, is a member of the Denver chapter of the FBI's InfraGard program, a public-private partnership that convenes businesses, the FBI, other law enforcement agencies and community organizations to exchange tips about national security threats. But sharing doesn't come easily in these circles. When Mark Weatherford, then Colorado's chief information security officer, became head of the InfraGard chapter in 2007, his collegial personality lured those agents out of their shells to the point where they readily identified themselves at meetings and began to exchange information. Today as the first civilian cyber-security chief, Weatherford is facilitating information-sharing at the highest levels of government-alongside the White House cyber czar Michael Daniel, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency. "Gen. Alexander and Mark Weatherford see themselves as peers," says Dakin, noting the military, law enforcement agencies and DHS haven’t always been on the same page. "The FBI used to say, 'Oh, you can’t talk to that guy, he's going to talk to the newspapers and it will come back to us.' " As the Homeland Security Department's deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity, Weatherford works closely with the bureau as it confronts cybercrime, which Mueller says will replace terrorism as the "No. 1 threat to the country." [...] -- Learn how to be a Pen Tester, CISSP, ISSMP, or ISSAP with Expanding Security online. Come to a free class and see how good and fun the program really is. http://www.expandingsecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Tue Jul 03 2012 - 00:22:09 PDT
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