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Of the 24 near- and mid-term action items listed in President Obama's May 2009 cyber policy review, only two are fully implemented and both involved appointments within the National Security Council, Read more...

President Obama Tuesday named his cybersecurity czar, seven months after vowing to personally select the right person to direct the government's strategy for protecting computer systems. The job went Read more...

A former assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the government's problems coordinating and coming up with consistent cybersecurity policies is partly Read more...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ranking member, has a new idea for policing cybercrime in the federal government. She wants to create a Read more...

There's a new cyber chief on the block, but not the one we've been waiting for. President Obama nominated National Security Agency director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander to be promoted to the rank of Read more...

For months now, we've all been thinking that President Obama wants to appoint a cyberczar. But the wait has been long, and there have been reports that no one wants the job. Now comes word from the Read more...

There is an ongoing and heated debate over who should be in charge of federal cybersecurity policy, a yet-to-be-named czar in the White House or the Department of Homeland Security that now has Read more...

The White House has a temporary cybersecurity chief while officials continue to search for the right candidate for the job. Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said last week that Chris Painter will become the Read more...

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Melissa Hathaway, the acting White House cyberczar, just doesn't get to go home after she resigned. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) wants to know why she is leaving the Obama administration. This could be Read more...