Obama IT Security Plan Praised

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As the nation awaits the new cybersecurity leader, the person to be chosen, will not be as highly placed in the White House as some had hoped. The president's plan does not establish a White House Office of Cyberspace, with its head reporting directly to the president, as proposed by some in Congress and the highly respected Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, sponsored by the Washington think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies. That doesn't bother commission member Chenok, the advisory board chairman who once served as the most senior, non-political executive in OMB. "Even if it didn't look exactly what the CSIS commission recommended," he said, "it's a major step forward."