Monday, June 1st, 2009
This is the second part in a series concerning the Cybersecurity Act of 2009. s773. As per request I have broken a large single page into sections. If you liked it the other way let me know. Please forgive my use of the term -cyber-, and any other marketing buzzwords. I’m just reflecting the terminology used.
s.773 Cybersecurity Act of 2009 part 2.
The relationship between the national intelligence agencies, and the private information technology sector has long since been consummated. There exists a tight federal and private partnership, with the majority of intelligence work being outsourced from the federal level to the corporate. This legislation is nothing more then a formality. It makes the partnership public knowledge, and gives the intelligence industrial complex an official voice in the white house.
SEC. 3. CYBERSECURITY ADVISORY PANEL.
(a) IN GENERAL- The President shall establish or designate a Cybersecurity Response Advisory Panel.
(b) QUALIFICATIONS- The President–
(1) shall appoint as members of the panel representatives of industry, academic, non-profit organizations, interest groups and advocacy organizations, and State and local governments who are qualified to provide advice and information on cybersecurity research, development, demonstrations, education, technology transfer, commercial application, or societal and civil liberty concerns; and
(2) may seek and give consideration to recommendations from the Congress, industry, the cybersecurity community, the defense community, State and local governments, and other appropriate organizations.
The President will select people who are qualified to provide advice and information on cybersecurity research, development, demonstrations, education, technology transfer, commercial application, or societal and civil liberty concerns.
This is quite a broad section of potential appointees. There is no mention about how the selection process would be carried out, or what makes one person more qualified then another to serve on the panel. The President is neither qualified to carry out the selection process, nor able to comprehend the details of recommendations given to him. Instead it would be necessary to create a “National Cyber Security Czar.” A sort of interpreter to advise the President in terms he can understand, and to give the President’s speech writer terms most people can comprehend. I suspect what we will ultimately see is the creation of a new cabinet position, a ‘Secretary of Cyberdefense’. Though it seems this has been done in the form of the National Cybersecurity Center.
US Cyber Head Quits Over Threats To Democracy
Rod Beckstrom, the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s National
Cyber Security Center, said last week he would be stepping down
effective March 13.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Beckstrom said
the NSA “dominates most national cyber efforts” and “effectively controls
DHS cyber efforts through detailees, technology insertions and the proposed
move” of the NCSC to an NSA facility at the agency’s Fort Meade, Md.,
headquarters.
In addition to the NCSC there is also the position of White House Cybersecurity Chief. With regards to part one of this article, I feel it important to note that the acting White House Cybersecurity Chief Melissa Hathaway was Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell and Cyber Coordination Executive, she specialized in cybersecurity strategies with consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
President Obama made an announcement in regards to the nation’s cybersecurity direction. Included in this plan is the appointment of Chief Cybersecurity Coordinator. It seems they will not be going with the title ‘czar’ this go round. It makes sense for the first people to be approached for positions on the panel will be people already currently employed in the service of the government. Those quoted in the findings would be an excellent example of potential panel members. Despite the new campaign from the Department of Defense to recruit hackers out of high school, I strongly doubt there will be any application process for independent civilian admission onto the panel. With Ms. Hathaway on the inside, and her former boss on the outside, it seems that not only has the chess board been set, the game has been played and what we are seeing is the results of the match finalized and put down on paper.
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
S. 773: Cyber Security Act of 2009
A bill to ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve and maintain effective cybersecurity defenses against disruption, and for other purposes.
The summary is quite honest to the actual intent of the bill. It is designed to protect commerce, and global trade. An act to ensure the continued exploitation of the Internet. Just looking at the initial sponsor, and the groups represented in the findings it seems quite obvious this act has been dreamed up by businesses and government agencies as a way of soliciting additional funding in the form of contracts. Essentially using tax payer money to expand their operations while projecting the illusion of securing ‘cyberspace’. Cyberwar profiteers getting their feet in the door for more government funding. We already have the majority of intelligence work done by agencies such as the NSA being outsourced to businesses like Booz Allen Hamilton. Now we see the same people giving dire warnings of an eminent terrorist threat. The reaction to these warnings it the Cyber Security Act, and the solution is to channel more resources to the people giving the warning.
Rockefeller – Cybersecurity
Sponsor:
Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV] – Great-grandfather was once the worlds richest man is considered the richest person in history. Infamous for his Standard Oil monopoly.
Cosponsors [as of 2009-04-18]
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME] – Daughter of a Spartan, popular Senator from Maine. Known for her ability to influence the outcome of close votes. Consider a RINO by some. She is also known as a Rockefeller Republican.
Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL] Former astronaut. Member of the Book and Snake secret society at Yale.
Sen. Evan Bayh [D-IN] Claims his wife’s corporate roles hold no sway over his votes. Recently formed the ‘Blue Dog’ caucus, where it is suspected he is supporting corporate agendas.
Capitol Hill’s corridors are now filled with corporate America’s lobbyists, who are working to assure that our middle class and those who aspire to it have as little representation as possible
Once the church was the dominant power in society, and churches dominated the skyline. Following the church was industry, and steeples were replaced with smoke stacks. From this industry grew enormous wealth. Soon the towering bank buildings facilitated the fluidity of these corporate industrial assets, and again their structures loomed over the city. What I noticed was a transfer of power from the banking and finance sector into telecommunications. Information is the currency of today. Where you have something of value, there will always be threats against it.
Cyberspace is the marketplace of information, and just like in the physical world there is also a black market.
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