“Howard will have the important responsibility of orchestrating the many important cybersecurity activities across the government,” said John Brennan, Obama’s assistant for homeland security and<\/p>\n
counterterrorism.<\/p>\n
“Howard will have regular access to the president and serve as a key member of his National Security Staff,” Brennan said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“He will also work closely with his economic team to ensure that our cybersecurity efforts keep the nation secure and prosperous,” he said.<\/p>\n
Schmidt, a cyber adviser in George W. Bush’s administration, is president of the non-profit consortium Information Security Forum.<\/p>\n
In his new capacity, Schmidt will be based at the National Security Council, coordinating the federal government’s cybsersecurity policy for both military and civilian agencies.<\/p>\n
An Air Force and FBI veteran, Schmidt also previously served as chief security officer at Microsoft.<\/p>\n
Citing his four decades of experience in government, business and law enforcement, Brennan called Schmidt “one of the world’s leading authorities on computer security.”<\/p>\n
The move comes as the Pentagon launches a new cyber command unit and the Department of Homeland Security seeks to boost the protection of civilian networks.<\/p>\n
“Cybersecurity matters to all of us. Protecting the Internet is critical to our national security, public safety and our personal privacy and civil liberties,” Brennan said.<\/p>\n
“It’s also vital to President Obama’s efforts to strengthen our country, from the modernization of our health care system to the high-tech job creation central to our economic recovery.”<\/p>\n
US President Barack Obama has tapped former Bush administration adviser Howard Schmidt as his cybsersecurity coordinator, the White House announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}