With all the Star Trek esqueness going around today - I can't help but hear "Worf" when I read Chief (information) Security Officer....
United States names its first Chief Information Security Officer
US president Barack Obama has named the nation's first ever Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Brigadier General (retired) Gregory J. Touhill has accepted the gig. He previously served as deputy assistant secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications in the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications at the Department …
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Friday 9th September 2016 07:58 GMT amanfromMars 1
Information wants to be Free, so that Intelligence grows and creates New Orderly World Orders?
Along the way he opined that cybergeddon scenarios might be a bit overblown
Does Brigadier General (retired) Gregory J. Touhill, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the United States still consider cybergeddon scenarios a bit overblown, or an all too real Persistent Advanced Cyber Threat and Novel Treat to be opposed or welcomed.
Does Uncle Sam, wherever and whoever that be lurking, presume to be in unilateral universal command and control of information and intelligence sharing and its mentoring and monitoring, or is such recognised as Fascist Big Brotherian if riddled with secrets known only to a chosen few ?
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Monday 12th September 2016 03:13 GMT Terry Cloth
Or at least stop us hoarding zero-days?
That would be the first big step to securing our nation's software. The questions are a) what are this guy's views on fixing all discovered bugs, even if discovered by a TLA, and b) does he come equipped with enough clout to convince the powers that be that this is a Good Thing?
I'm not holding my breath.
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Friday 9th September 2016 16:14 GMT bombastic bob
Is Obaka going after wikileaks?
I have to wonder if the new cyber security guy's position is to somehow deal with things LIKE the upcoming wikileaks "reveal" on Mrs. Clinton? Couple THAT with the last big info-dump/reveal of DNC e-mails (showing them acting like everyone they allegedly HATE, from racial slurs and sexist comments, to deliberately messing with the primary election process to coronate Mrs. Clinton).
And the OBAKA administration is, perhaps, IN A STATE OF PANIC?
well, I can help them out: Stop using Micro-shaft servers and Outlook for e-mail, enforce the law with respect to keeping classified info off of the intarwebs and private e-mail accounts, and PUNISH those who've been negligent and possibly got people killed... [no need to name names on THAT part]
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Saturday 10th September 2016 21:26 GMT Tom -1
Re: Is Obaka going after wikileaks? @bombastic bob
> and PUNISH those who've been negligent and possibly got people killed... [no need to name names on THAT part]
Well, I suspect there probably is a need to name names because your bias is so damned obvious: If we are restricting ourseleve to dates after 1945 the first name on the list of thise who were negilgent and got people killed should probably be Lyndon B Johnson and the second George W Bush.
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Friday 9th September 2016 17:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
A whole lot of nothing
Is it just me, or isn't this at least the 2nd military guy who has been identified as head of US "cyber defense"? Is it really that significant that his paycheck comes from someplace other than the Pentagon? Fact is no one in the US government is doing much on computer security defense. All the money and therefore the effort has been focused on offense, much of the time indiscriminantly against the mass of US citizens and the citizens of US allies. Let's be real. What the NSA and other three-letter agencies have been up to isn't good for much but economic espionage to fatten the stock portfolios of lawmakers and to prepare to suppress dissent when the public finally reacts to the oligarch's looting of the economy (which has been a long time coming but may only be one more financial meltdown away now).