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White House calls for coordinated cyber-security response


By David Worthington
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June 1, 2009 —  (Page 1 of 3)
U.S. President Barack Obama has made digital infrastructure protection a national priority. The White House released last Friday a 60-day review that recommended how the federal government should address security matters going forward. Privacy was given top billing in the report.

As a consequence of the report's findings, a position is being created for a national cyber-security coordinator working inside the White House staff. Candidates are still being taken under consideration, the White House says. Cyber security was previously the domain of the Department of Homeland Security.

The report, titled "Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure," concludes that the federal government needs to increase investment in achieving security and resiliency in information and communications infrastructures; a public/private partnership to coordinate responses to cyber attacks; international cooperation to mitigate security risks; as well as raising the public's awareness about the state of infrastructure security.

It also stated that new laws and mandates might be necessary to bolster security, but it expressed the White House's view that new regulation would only be taken up if it became absolutely necessary.

While the administration is advocating a broadened government role, the word "privacy" appears in the report no less than 60 times to curtail fears that the government could hold sway over private networks. "Our pursuit of cyber security will not—I repeat, will not—include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic," Obama said during a press conference in the White House's East Room.

The Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit public interest organization, said that it "is evident that the report's authors listened to the concerns of privacy and civil liberties groups." However, a cyber-security “czar” "could easily morph into a central figure in the drive to regulate private networks, rather than simply focus on government modernization," cautioned Wayne Crews, vice president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian public interest group.

The President called for the U.S. to ensure that networks are "secure, trustworthy and resilient," and stated that the government's goal was to, "deter, prevent, detect and defend against attacks, and recover quickly from any disruptions or damage."


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