Former White House Cybersecurity Czar Calls For Security Action

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http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/news/240002026/former-white-house-cybersecurity-czar-calls-for-security-action.html

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
June 13, 2012

GARTNER SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT SUMMIT -- National Harbor, Md. -- The 
White House's first cybersecurity coordinator yesterday said it's time 
for the federal government to begin implementing its blueprints for 
secure identities and its international strategy for cybersecurity, 
efforts that he spearheaded during his term.

"We need to start executing" our strategies, the recently retired Howard 
Schmidt said yesterday in an interview after his keynote address here. 
"We can't be going back and creating yet another strategy."

Schmidt, 62, resigned his post late last month for retirement after 
two-and-half years on the job. The former president and CEO of the 
international nonprofit Information Security Forum and chief information 
security officer at eBay and Microsoft led the Obama administration's 
historic international strategy for cybersecurity and cyberspace, as 
well as the National Strategy for Trusted Identities In Cyberspace 
(NSTIC). Michael Daniel, 41, former chief of the White House budget 
office's intelligence branch, was named Schmidt's successor.

Schmidt did not address reports that the U.S. and Israel were behind 
Stuxnet and Flame in his keynote talk, and he later declined to comment 
specifically about the reports during a question-and-answer session. "I 
can't talk about whether it's true or not true," Schmidt told attendees 
here. "But I can say you have to be very cautious about what goes on 
there because it can have very dramatic cascading effects."

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