Bush considers cybersecurity board

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http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0514/web-cip-05-15-01.asp

BY Diane Frank 
05/15/2001 

The White House is leaning toward creating a coordination board to
supplement the sole National Security Council official overseeing
federal cybersecurity efforts, a senior administration official said.

When President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 63 in
May 1998, requiring agencies to secure the systems that support the
nations critical infrastructure, the directive also created several
organizations and established a national coordinator for security,
infrastructure protection and counterterrorism at the NSC.

President Bush said last month that he would re-examine the
organization of and potential overlap among the agencies with critical
infrastructure protection responsibilities, and the administration
announced last week that recommendations would be issued shortly.

However, the discussion is flowing toward having a "coordinating body"
to oversee not dictate actions, John Tritak, director of the Critical
Infrastructure Assurance Office, said Monday at the Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics Association conference on Protecting
e-Government in the 21st Century.

According to a source close to the discussions, the coordination board
would be made up of representatives from each of the agencies involved
in the initiative. The NSC would still lead the board, with Richard
Clarke, who served as national coordinator the past three years, most
likely still filling that role.



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