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Obama To Name Melissa Hathaway Cybersecurity Chief

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the how-do-i-get-tsar-in-my-title dept.

hargrand writes "President Obama has found the cyber tsar to head his new White House office of cybersecurity. According to US press reports this morning, an announcement expected later today will confirm Melissa Hathaway is to come in as cyber chief, after being cyber coordination executive for the director of national intelligence."

3 of 188 comments (clear)

  1. CYBER by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Am I the only one who *hates* the word cyber?
    Is it a generational thing? Does it have something to do with Lawnmower Man?

    --
    If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
  2. Change by cats2ndlife · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If she can somehow become the poster girl for geeky women and bring more of those into our line of work to lighten up the workplace, that'll be awesome. Now that's progress my friends.

  3. I would have gone with... by GPLDAN · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Marcus Ranum myself.

    This woman helped politic the CNCI into existence.

    This editorial says more about the uselessness of that than I ever could:
    http://duvet-dayz.com/archives/2008/07/21/805/


    One of Obama's weakest appointments, and yes - I voted for him.