Soliciting Higher Education Input to the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency

[Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has
established a Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency - the
administration that will take office in January 2009.  (See factsheet at
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/cyber_commission_factsheet.pdf). The
goal of the nonpartisan Commission is to develop recommendations for a
comprehensive strategy to improve cyber security in federal systems and
in critical infrastructure.

The EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force has been invited to provide
input to the Commission and welcomes your comments in the following
areas:

*       What role has the Federal government played to improve
cybersecurity these past few years that has been useful for the higher
education sector?

*       Are there ways in which the Federal government has hindered
progress? If so, please describe.

*       Are there new initiatives you would like to see from the Federal
government help to improve cybersecurity?

Please comment by Wednesday, March 12th, 2008, by sharing your thoughts
with this list, sending your comments to
Security-Task-Force () educause edu, or posting a new comment to the blog
entry on this topic at
http://connect.educause.edu/blog/Rodney/solicitinghighereducation/46370

Thank you,

-Rodney Petersen

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Rodney J. Petersen, J.D.
Government Relations Officer & Security Task Force Coordinator

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