The president’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Com...
The president’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee approved reports on cybersecurity and identity management at a meeting Thursday. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, in her first meeting with the committee since taking office, said cybersecurity is a…
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critical issue that DHS has “been thinking a lot about.” She said it’s “one of the deep and emerging areas where we need to make more robust our systems, our protections and our private-public collaborations.” The department has been “actively engaged” in President Barack Obama’s 60-day review of cybersecurity, she said. The FCC will take up cybersecurity in its national broadband plan, which is due to Congress next February, said David Furth, acting Public Safety Bureau chief. Much more work is needed on cybersecurity, he said, saying the FCC has established a council to work on the subject. The NSTAC’s cybersecurity report concludes that “an adequate operational capability to respond to the current growing cyber threat does not exist,” said Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson. Future attacks on the U.S. could be “severe or catastrophic,” he said. The report recommended that the president direct the creation of a “joint, integrated public-private 24/7 operational cyber incident detection, prevention, mitigation and response capability to address cyber events and incidents of national consequence,” he said. The report on identity management issues urged the president to charter a national identity management office under the executive office, said Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski. It urges Obama to use his bully pulpit to “positively influence the national culture, attitudes and opinions toward identity management,” said Zafirovski. NSTAC’s satellite task force plans to have a draft report on the industry ready by August, said Kay Sears, president of Intelsat General. The report will tackle capacity availability issues resulting from cyberattacks, as well as interference and the migration of systems from bent-pipe design to IP-based networks, Sears said.