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Obama's Cyber Security Plan Receives a Cautious Response
The security industry was cautious in praising President Obama's latest idea of providing security in cyber space and for electing a new cyber security coordinator for the White House. This is because many people consider this move to be proof of the administration recognizing cyber threat as an issue of national security.
They say that nothing can be positively spoken about how efficient this strategy will be in improving the country's ability in dealing with cyber attacks. It was during a meeting at the White House that Obama had declared a five point cyber security plan to help protect the military, government and other private networks from increased threats.
The newly elected cyber security officer will be responsible of bringing together a strategy that will promote American activities in cyberspace. In addition to this, the government will also be responsible for safeguarding privacy concerns. This is why this new post of government includes a head of intelligence.
Centralization of cyber security matters
This strategy was approved, and developed according to suggestions forwarded by Melissa Hathaway, after conducting a government based study on cyberspace. Melissa Hathway was this year elected to be the impromptu cyberspace senior director.
Now it is in the hands of Obama management system to implement these proposals meaningfully. All this depends on the implementations the cyber security coordinator manages to develop, and the influence the person has over both the private and government sectors.
With the centralizing of authority for cyber security matters of the White House offering many benefits, it is very important that there is lots of care, to ensure a balance in power. There should not be any incidents of people panicking without any prior instructions or authorized orders from people of different levels.
Need for a cultural transformation
Some people agree that Obama's idea of summarizing all the cyber security problems and methods used to solve them to be a great idea. They mention that special emphasis has to be made on the emphasis the president's focus has on reaching goals and in creating accountability in the government.
In addition to this, Obama's idea of providing the cyber security coordinator with more authority in making sure that governmental agencies are doing all that is required to implement cyber security is a positive step on Obama's part. It is however felt that for all this to be successful, government agencies will have to go through lots of transformation.
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