The rumors are stifling. The office cooler talk exhausting. No one knows the name of the next cybersecurity czar yet, but there have been plenty of trial balloons. The latest comes from govinfosecurity.com which looks closely into Scott Charney's appearance last week before a House congressional committee.

Charney is Microsoft's corporate vice president of trustworthy computing. He appeared before the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, and lots of people were listening to his testimony.

Here's what he said about government and private sector's efforts to dance, according to govinfosecurity.com: "Early efforts on partnership focused on information sharing. The problem is that information sharing is not an objective, it's a tool. You share information so you can do something. Sharing information just for the sake of sharing information doesn't make any operational change that makes security better. So, the first problem was the wrong focus, focus on sharing instead of action."

If we believed every rumor out there, we'd have a cybersecurity czar committee, not an individual. But we anxiously await the resolution of this nomination. It's about time, don't you think?

For more on the cybersecurity czar:
- check out this govinfosecurity.com article