More than six months since the cybersecurity coordinator position was announced (and three months since rumors flew that a candidate had been selected), the Obama administration has yet to announce a selection for the job. Why? In addition to a … read more
The administration may be lagging behind on cybersecurity, but members of Congress are moving forward. The House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Education is scheduled to mark up a draft amendment to the 2002 Cybersecurity Research and Development … read more
It appears that President Obama is close to naming the new cybersecurity coordinator—GovInfoSecurity.com reports that the announcement will be in the next week or two. In the meantime, a former FBI cybersecurity expert, Chris Painter, has been named the acting … read more
Is this another setback for President Obama’s cybersecurity policy? Melissa Hathaway, the acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security Council, has announced her resignation effective August 21. The long delays in forming cybersecurity policy are said to have … read more
It looks like North Korea gave the U.S. a bigger birthday present than we first realized. Around the same time that Pyongyang fired seven short range missiles into the Sea of Japan, key U.S. government agencies (DHS, the White House, … read more
