Security exec picked for board

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1231/web-cipb-01-02-02.asp

By Diane Frank 
Jan. 2, 2001

Howard Schmidt, Microsoft Corp.'s chief information security officer,
is in line to be vice chairman of the federal Critical Infrastructure
Protection Board.

President Bush announced Dec. 21 his intention to nominate Schmidt to
the board, which Bush created to coordinate the protection of the
government's and the private sector's critical cyber assets.

Schmidt has long been involved in federal cybersecurity and critical
infrastructure protection. During the past two years, he worked with
the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology to
create a public/private center for security research and development.  
He also has worked with the cross-sector Partnership for Critical
Infrastructure Security and has been the head of the information
sharing and analysis center formed by the information technology
sector under Presidential Decision Directive 63.

Before working at Microsoft, Schmidt was director of the Air Force
Office of Special Investigations, Computer Forensic Lab and Computer
Crime and Information Warfare, where he established the first
dedicated computer forensic lab in the government.

His background also includes service with the FBI at the National Drug
Intelligence Center, as a police officer and with the Air Force in
active duty and civil service.

He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master
of arts in organizational management from the University of Phoenix.

The Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, led by Bush's new
cyberspace security adviser Richard Clarke, builds on PDD 63, which
President Clinton issued in May 1998 requiring agencies to protect the
information systems that support the nation's critical infrastructure,
such as banking and transportation.



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