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Obama Forms Commission To Bolster US Cyber Security (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the a-matter-of-national-security dept.

An anonymous reader writes: President Obama unveiled a commission of private, public and academic experts to bolster the US cyber security sector. The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will be co-chaired by former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano and Tom Donilon, the President's former national security adviser. Some other notable members include MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, Microsoft Research VP Peter Lee, Uber's current (and Facebook's former) Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, Frontier Communications Executive Chairperson Maggie Wildrotter, and Annie Anton, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. The specific goals of the commission are to: "Raise the level of cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors, deter, disrupt, and interfere with malicious cyber activity aimed at the U.S. or its allies and respond effectively to and recover from cyber incidents."

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  1. no clue on the council by JonathanP.Bennett · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yay, totally filled with executive types that have no actual clue about computer security. Maybe if there were actual security researchers, hackers, and programmers working on the problem... Wait, we already are working on it, and still no silver bullets.

  2. Step 1. stop the Government from making it worse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The first step towards making Security better is to stop the Government from trying to make it worse.

    stop demanding that security be weakened,

    This is not only a matter of stopping efforts to require backdoors in products, but also stop secrecy around warrents for data

    How do we, or anyone else (including the people at Microsoft) know that all the the "National Security" letters that they have received from different people over the years actually came from the Government? There have been enough issues that I'm sure the bad guys have copies from somewhere. What stops them from sending something out demanding data?

    David Lang

  3. It's an election year by tomhath · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama has what? Nine months left? This commission is nothing but a publicity stunt to try and make it look like his administration actually did something in the eight years they had.