IP Theft, Supply Chain Security Major Worries for Government, Former Cybersecurity Czar Says

ANAHEIM, CALIF.–The theft of intellectual property through attacks on U.S. networks, both government-owned and private, has become one of the major concerns for officials at the top level of the federal government, not just among security staffs, but at the upper echelons of the White House and...

An Interview With Howard Schmidt

Howard Schmidt has been involved in just about every aspect of the security industry during his career. After stints in the Air Force and at Microsoft, he served as a cybersecurity adviser to George W. Bush. Now, after heading back to the private sector for several years, he’s been appointed to...

Howard Schmidt on the Cybersecurity Czar, Cybercrime and How to Fix Federal Cybersecurity

President Obama on Tuesday appointed Howard Schmidt, the former CSO of Microsoft and Bush administration security adviser, to be the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator. In this podcast, recorded in May soon after Obama’s announcement that he would appoint a security czar, Dennis Fisher talks...

On the Evil Maid USB Attack, Time Warner and the Cybersecurity Czar

Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine discuss the Evil Maid USB attack, the Time Warner modem vulnerability and that old standby: the cybersecurity czar. Download SHOW NOTES: How to Defeat Full-Disk Encryption in One Minute Time Warner Router Flaw Exposes Customers Apathy Creeps In as Cybersecurity Czar...

Threatpost News Wrap #4: Crypto libraries, cybersecurity czar job

Threatpost editors Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher talk about the problems with developers implementing their own crypto libraries in Web applications, the short list of names for the cybersecurity czar job and the possibility of a full-scale hacker bracket competition. Download SHOW NOTES: Short...

Short list emerges for cybersecurity czar job

The first reports of the short list for the job of federal cybersecurity coordinator are beginning to trickle out, and while some of the names are all too familiar, many others are quite new to the national scene. The most well-known name on the list, as reported by Reuters, is that of Scott...

Rich Mogull on Mac security, the Cybersecurity Czar and Project Quant

Dennis Fisher talks with Securosis founder Rich Mogull about Mac security, Obama’s cybersecurity plan and his Project Quantpatch-management work with Microsoft. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...

Private sector relations should be job one for cyber security czar

Whoever is brave enough to fill the soon-to-be-created cybersecurity czar position will find a rather large pile of challenges waiting. Among them will be dealing with a confused and argumentative Congress, doing a full-scale assessment of the country’s critical infrastructure and reaching out to...

Cybersecurity czar position, 60-day review report coming this week

From The Washington Post Ellen Nakashima The Obama administration is set to announce the creation of a new high-level position to run the cybersecurity program for the country. The announcement is expected on Friday, along with the release of the report on the administration’s 60-day review of th...

Counterpoint: The need for a cybersecurity czar is real

As everyone prepares to examine the results of the Obama Administration’s cyber-security review, one of the largest issues in play remains to what extent the White House will embrace recommendations to create a Cabinet-level position to address the matter or some role superior to today’s “cyber...

Senate bill proposes sweeping changes to U.S. cybersecurity

By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus, Washington Post Federal legislators are working on a bill that would make major changes to the way that both government and private networks are protected. The Washington Post reports that the legislation not only will include more enforcement for regulations, b...