Melissa Hathaway Awarded Top Honor by Internet Security Alliance

The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) has awarded Melissa Hathaway the Dave McCurdy Internet Security Award, in recognition of her contribution to strengthening cyber security. The award recognizes Hathaway’s contribution to US national cyber security in her role in conducting the Cyberspace Policy Review and her ongoing efforts to raise cyber security…

Melissa Hathaway to Serve on Terremark Board of Directors

Melissa Hathaway has been elected to the board of directors at Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a provider of managed IT services.

“During my time working in the federal government, I became very impressed with Terremark’s innovative solutions, its team of experts and …

US Faces Serious Threats in Cyberspace says John Brennan

President Obama’s top counter terrorism adviser, John Brennan, recently said on NBC’s Meet the Press, that the US faces serious threats in cyberspace. “The threats and the vulnerabilities within the cyber domain are serious and significant,” he said.

Brennan did not name a specific country (or countries) as being responsible for the threat. President Obama has…

Melissa Hathaway to Serve as Security Adviser to Cisco

The New New Internet has learned Melissa Hathaway, president of Hathaway Global Strategies and the former acting senior director for cyberspace within the National Security Council, will join Cisco as a senior adviser to the security team.

Hathaway previously led the 60-Day Cyberspace Policy review for the Obama administration.

On Thursday, February 4 at 2 p.m. PST, Cisco will…

Acting Cyber Czar Says White House is not Behind in Cyber

The current acting Cyber Security Coordinator at the White House, Chris Painter, recently responded to the growing criticism targeting the White House’s inability to fill the position permanently. At the Federal Chief Information Officers Council’s 2009 Federal Identity Management and Cybersecurity Conference on Tuesday, he said “It’s a mistake to think that without a coordinator we’re not making progress,” according to an article on govinfosecurity.com.

Currently, Painter conducts…

Calls Increase for Cyber Coordinator

TechAmerica has joined in calling on the Obama administration to quickly appoint someone to the position of cyber coordinator.

The calls for someone to be appointed to the position have increased in the past month, with members of Congress joining the fray.

Phil Bond, the president of TechAmerica wrote an open letter to President Obama requesting his “attention to the appointment of a cybersecurity coordinator in the White House at the…

Melissa Hathaway Moves To ManTech

ManTech International announced late yesterday that Melissa Hathaway, President of Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC and former Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National and Homeland Security Councils, and former Senior Advisor and Cyber Coordination Executive for the Director of National Intelligence, will provide guidance and input at ManTech in the field of national security, specifically in the field of cybersecurity.

Gen. Raduege Responds to Hathaway’s Move to Harvard

Following Melissa Hathaway’s move to Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, The New New Internet had the opportunity to discuss the move briefly with Gen. Harry Raduege, currently chairman at the Deloitte Center for Network Intergration.

Raduege believes this move will prove useful for Hathaway and the nation.

Moving to the center is “a great opportunity … to engage with…

Hathaway Urges Government to ‘Keep Pace with Cybersecurity’

In an article for Information Security Magazine, Melissa Hathaway, currently of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, highlighted the centrality of the Internet and computer networks to U.S. national infrastructure.

Hathaway’s contributions to moving cybersecurity forward resulted in her being awarded the Security 7 Award.

The article, titled “Government Must Keep Pace with Cybersecurity Threats,” examined the role technology plays in U.S. economic interests and the need…

Melissa Hathaway Joins Harvard’s Belfer Center

Melissa Hathaway, the National Security Council’s former acting senior director for cyberspace, a senior adviser on cybersecurity at the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.

Specifically, she well be working on the Minerva Project, which is a collaborative effort between the DoD, Harvard, and MIT.

One of her primary responsibilities at the center will involve examining the policy gaps in the international arena. According to…