10/29/08 05:25 pm ET
Robert Jamison, under secretary of the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Homeland Security Department, told ComputerWorld:
"As we go ahead into the election, the first thing that's important is career leadership ... that we have the right people in the right jobs, and, secondly, that we don't lose the momentum of a coordinated approach."
The article also referenced a recent blog entry by Jamison, in which he wrote: “A reorganization of roles and responsibilities is the worst thing that could be done to improve our nation's security posture against very real and increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.”
But according to a Government Computer News article, that may not be the thinking of a commission Congress formed to look into how to best mange cybersecurity. From the article:
One of the biggest departures from current cybersecurity policy will be the commission’s recommendation to take the lead away from the Homeland Security Department and give it to the White House.Bush put DHS in charge of the country’s cybersecurity in the initiative launched in January with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23.
“The commission strongly disagrees with that,” [Rep. Jim] Langevin[, D-R.I.,] said in an interview with Government Computer News. “This needs to be directed out of the Executive Office of the President,” in close cooperation with the National Security Council.
Langevin called the president’s Cyber Initiative a good first step, but said DHS is not yet up to the task.
“DHS will not be able to handle it at this point,” he said. “It is still a young, immature agency trying to stand itself up.”
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