Re: whitehouse cyber strategy review

[rick wesson <rick () support-intelligence com>]

Who wants the job? The pay is like 120K year, anyone worth their salt
just won't go for it. also the 2 year no lobing after you quit. Your not
going to get the best candidates...

-rick


Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > Is it me or is the new Whitehouse cyber security document just b/s of 
> > more cooperation yet again?
>
> I for one am reassured and inspired. The Bush administration was
> incapable of making so attractive a document. What was it supposed to be
> about again?
>
> In a recent CircleID
> (http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091104_the_role_of_a_cybersecurity_czar
> /) Steven Bellovin talked about why it's taking the administration so
> long to appoint a cyber czar. I pointed out in a comment that we have
> Obama to thank for raising expectations for government leadership in
> this area and that he had specifically promised to appoint such an
> advisor reporting directly to him and that he would make computer
> security the high priority issue it needed to be. 
>
> Obviously these were as insincere as most of his campaign promises. The
> Bush administration made several low-profile efforts at these problems
> with, to my knowledge, no real success. As with Afghanistan, Obama is
> finding out that solutions that will work and gain political acceptance
> in the real world aren't as simple as his very clear campaign promises.
>
> Larry Seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
>
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