https://www.csoonline.com/article/3564539/bipartisan-bill-could-bring-back-the-white-house-national-cyber-director-role.html
By Cynthia Brumfield
CSO
July 1, 2020
Last week a bipartisan group of US House of Representatives legislators
introduced the National Cyber Director Act to create the position of a
national cyber director within the White House. The creation of this role
is one of the chief recommendations of an increasingly influential
intergovernmental group known as the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
The commission issued its report -- the product of months-long
deliberations by four members from congress, four senior executive agency
leaders and six experts from outside of government – just as the
coronavirus pandemic quarantine kicked in during March. Nevertheless, the
commission’s 80 recommendations, such as creating a national cyber
director, are quickly being translated into actionable legislation on
Capitol Hill.
Two of the commission’s leaders, Cyberspace Solarium Chair Congressman Jim
Langevin (D-RI) and Solarium Co-Chair Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI),
introduced the bill. Other legislators backing the bill include House
Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Ranking
Member of the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on
Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Innovation John Katko (R-NY), former
Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee C. A. Dutch
Ruppersberger (D-MD), and Ranking Member of the House Intelligence
Committee’s Subcommittee on Intelligence Modernization and Readiness Will
Hurd (R-TX).
The creation of a top official responsible for cybersecurity in the White
House is not a new idea. Howard Schmidt and Richard Clarke served as
special cybersecurity advisers to the president in the George W. Bush
White House. Schmidt and Michael Daniel both served as White House
cybersecurity coordinator under President Obama. Rob Joyce served as
cybersecurity coordinator under Donald Trump until he was pushed out by
then-National Security Advisor John Bolton.
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