Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post 138
krebsatwpost writes "The Department of Homeland Security has named Microsoft's 'chief trustworthy infrastructure strategist' Phil Reitinger to be its top cyber security official. Many in the security industry praised him as a smart pick, but said he will need to confront a culture of political infighting and leadership failures at DHS. From the story: 'Reitinger comes to the position with cyber experience in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, he was executive director of the Defense Department's Computer Forensics Lab. Before that, he was deputy chief of the Justice Department's Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property section, where he worked under Scott Charney, who is currently corporate vice president for trustworthy computing at Microsoft.'"
US-CERT mentioned in article (Score:5, Informative)
I wonder if we will be seeing US-CERT standing up to Microsoft the way they did with this [us-cert.gov] (a vector for conficker) with him in charge.
I have a sick feeling about this. This guy was surely part of the Microsoft effort to call this a feature. And what was this "political infighting" that the article alludes to? I hope it wasn't over whether to go after Microsoft for aiding in the creation of the largest botnet to date.
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The DHS is the over-arching agency containing the previously separate agencies you listed above.
Prior to the creation of the DHS, communication between agencies like the CIA and FBI was legally difficult because of the lack of transparency. But now that they are under the same umbrella agency, they can share information much more easily.
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Re:Microsoft and Security in the same sentence? (Score:1, Informative)
Actually, no, most of the people voting for Obama didn't know some very basic things [howobamagotelected.com] about him or the opposition. And what they did know, was often wrong.
In the particularly striking example, the vast majority attributed the infamous I can see Russia from my house! [brisbanetimes.com.au] to Sarah Palin, when, in fact, the phrase was coined by Saturday Night Live, who were mocking her lack of foreign policy experience, while willfully ignoring Joe Biden's — whom Obama picked for the supposed foreign policy expertise — lunacies [anncoulter.com].
What's much worse, though, is that these supposedly educated and well-versed people are now trying their damnest [wnd.com] to keep the truth from becoming known — people trying to add mentions of Obama's association with (unrepentant) terrorist Ayers [wikipedia.org] to Obama's Wikipedia entry [wikipedia.org] have their changes reverted within minutes [wikipedia.org] and their accounts banned for days...