Mark Weatherford's major league cyber team

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2012/07/security-trust/56575/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
July 2, 2012

A decade ago, when Rick Dakinmet parents at his son’s grade school who 
said they worked for the "government" --and declined to expand -- it 
meant they were agents. Dakin, a security consultant, is a member of the 
Denver chapter of the FBI's InfraGard program, a public-private 
partnership that convenes businesses, the FBI, other law enforcement 
agencies and community organizations to exchange tips about national 
security threats. But sharing doesn't come easily in these circles.

When Mark Weatherford, then Colorado's chief information security 
officer, became head of the InfraGard chapter in 2007, his collegial 
personality lured those agents out of their shells to the point where 
they readily identified themselves at meetings and began to exchange 
information.

Today as the first civilian cyber-security chief, Weatherford is 
facilitating information-sharing at the highest levels of 
government-alongside the White House cyber czar Michael Daniel, FBI 
Director Robert Mueller and Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the 
National Security Agency. "Gen. Alexander and Mark Weatherford see 
themselves as peers," says Dakin, noting the military, law enforcement 
agencies and DHS haven’t always been on the same page.

"The FBI used to say, 'Oh, you can’t talk to that guy, he's going to 
talk to the newspapers and it will come back to us.' " As the Homeland 
Security Department's deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity, 
Weatherford works closely with the bureau as it confronts cybercrime, 
which Mueller says will replace terrorism as the "No. 1 threat to the 
country."

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