Where Is President Obama’s Cyber Coordinator?

It has been almost two months since the release of the 60-Day Cyberspace Review and President Obama’s historic speech marking cybersecurity as a “strategic national asset”. Yet the cyber coordinator position remains vacant. Some believe this is because there is no direction as to what the role of the cyber coordinator will be in the new administration. Others argue that no one working at a high-level, highly-lucrative  position would leave…

Cyber Czar: the Contenders

It has been two weeks since the 60-Day White House Cybersecurity Review, and President Barack Obama has yet to name the new cyber czar.

After the 60-Day review came outl most believed Melissa Hathaway, the acting senior director of cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils and leader of the Cyberspace Policy Review, would receive the position. Her Wikipedia Page even states, “Ms. Hathaway is…

Potential ‘Cyber Czar’ Candidates Revealed

Melissa Hathaway, Rod Beckstrom and Paul Kurtz are the forerunners in the race to be the U.S. government’s first “cyber czar.” Don Adams, the Palo Alto-based chief technology officer, Worldwide, Public Sector for tech giant Tibco, said in a statement.

The Obama administration’s information security chief (a job title that still…