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Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post
krebsatwpost writes "The Department of Homeland Security has named Microsoft's 'chief trustworthy infrastructure strategist' Phil Reitinger to be its top cyber security official. Many in the security industry praised him as a smart pick, but said he will need to confront a culture of political infighting and leadership failures at DHS. From the story: 'Reitinger comes to the position with cyber experience in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, he was executive director of the Defense Department's Computer Forensics Lab. Before that, he was deputy chief of the Justice Department's Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property section, where he worked under Scott Charney, who is currently corporate vice president for trustworthy computing at Microsoft.'"
what do you expect, you people carried on like it was the second comming when you elected him. no one can live up to that kind of hype.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
eliminate the whole DHS nonense and just fund the FBI,NSA,CIA and police properly. if those 4 agencies can't get it done wtf is the DHS going to add?
Inter-agency communication.
The lack of it, coupled with an administration that was ignoring the messages from all sides led directly to 9/11. Since we can't always trust that our President will be aware of all the right information, we can at least implement the bureaucracy in such a way that as long as someone is paying attention we can act.