Image from Lockheed Martin.From Nextgov:
President Obama should create a national cybersecurity coordinating center with public and private sector representation that can provide near real-time warnings and share threat data with government and industry stakeholders about high-tech attacks against critical infrastructure, a panel of experts said Thursday.
The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee formally approved the proposal after meeting earlier in the day with Obama and senior advisers.
Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson chaired the committee that wrote the report. He said the new 24-hour monitoring center would build upon initiatives like the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and the National Coordinating Center for Communications, which is part of the interagency National Communications System that houses NSTAC.
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My Comment: While such an agency is clearly required, I just hope that such a Cybersecurity Coordinator will not be another bureaucracy that is slow, cumbersome, and inefficient.
For everyone's info, Lockheed Martin has an interesting center for cyber security innovation. The link is here.
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