I am glad that in midst of dealing with economic crisis, President Obama is continuing to work towards other priorities – cyber-security! He has ordered a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity to examine how federal agencies use technology to protect secrets and data.
Melissa Hathaway will head the effort to examine all the government plans, programs and activities under way to manage massive amounts of data _ everything from passport application to tax records, personal tax returns to national security documents. A failure or attack on that infrastructure could harm the country by, for example, shutting down the nation’s airlines or crashing the stock market.
