President Obama this week directed his national security and homeland security advisors to conduct a 60-day review of the plans, programs, and activities ongoing throughout the federal government for cyber security.
The review will be led by Melissa Hathaway, who has served as the cyber coordination executive to the Director of National Intelligence. Hathaway will serve as acting director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils during the review period.
The White House said the “review will develop a strategic framework to ensure that the United States government cyber security initiatives are appropriately integrated, resourced and coordinated with Congress and the private sector.”
Obama believes that the nation’s cyber infrastructure can be protected while the rule of law and privacy rights and civil liberties are maintained, John Brennan, assistant to the president for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, said in a statement.