Bush To Name Tech Security Leaders

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 21:22:10 -0500
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Subject: Bush To Name Tech Security Leaders



Bush To Name Tech Security Leaders

By Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Thursday, January 9, 2003; 4:07 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34171-2003Jan9.html

The White House is planning to nominate a former intelligence agency
chairman and a high-ranking Commerce Department official to shape the way
information technology is used in the fight against terrorism, according to
government and technology industry sources.

The nominees will be key players in the new Department of Homeland Security
and would be profoundly influential on a range of technology issues,
including protecting the nation's online infrastructure, directing the
development of new surveillance and defense technologies and preserving the
privacy rights of ordinary citizens.

James Clapper, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, will be
nominated to lead the department's Information Analysis and Infrastructure
Protection (IAIP) division. He would be responsible not only for IT
security, but also for getting often competing intelligence agencies to pool
their data. Inter-agency rivalries contributed to a lack of awareness of
terrorist activity that presaged the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Virginia
and Pennsylvania, according to a number of studies after the fact.

Commerce Department official John Tritak will be tapped to run the
Infrastructure Protection division under Clapper, administration sources
said.


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