Obama Administration Creates Cyber Czar to Secure IT Infrastructure
June 1, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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It looks like the politicians have finally figured out how important–and how vulnerable–America’s digital infrastructure is. Last Friday, the Obama Administration said that it would be creating a “cyber czar” Cabinet-level position to help better secure government and private IT infrastructure. The edges between these, as you all know, has been blurred by the Big Gray Cloud, or the InterTubes, or whatever you want to call it. (OK, the Internet.) In his remarks to the press, President Obama made his concern over security IT assets clear by coming clean on the fact that his presidential campaign had been hacked. “It’s |
