Jane Holl Lute will head the new...
Jane Holl Lute will head the new Council on Cybersecurity, a nonprofit aimed at prioritizing and implementing industry-accepted standards for cybersecurity, said Maurice Uenuma, chief operating officer for the council, in an interview. Lute, former deputy secretary at the Department…
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of Homeland Security, will serve as president and CEO of the council, said Uenuma. “There are many entities that engage in cybersecurity work, from policymakers and government to technologists, to product and service providers, to academics,” he said. “But what was needed was a place and a group of experts in the field that could speak on how to turn all of that into practice.” The group is a continuation of its predecessor, the National Board of Information Security Examiners, which focused on recruiting cybersecurity professionals, Uenuma said. The council will also help encourage industry adoption of critical security controls developed by the SANS Institute, he said, and it will “take stewardship” of those goals and continue to improve them. Its advisory board will include Vint Cerf, Google vice president and chief Internet evangelist; Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab; Nicole Seligman, Sony executive vice president; and Mike McConnell, Booz Allen Hamilton vice chairman. Former National Security Agency official Tony Sager will serve as the director of programs for the council, Uenuma said. The council’s website started Monday morning (http://bit.ly/16GExxI).