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White House Cyber Security Plans Declassified

Source:eweek

At the RSA Conference, White House Cyber-Security Coordinator Howard Schmidt announced an unclassified version of the Obama administration's “Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative” is now available online. In his remarks, Schmidt declared that transparency and partnership must go "hand in hand."

The White House has made an unclassified version of a document describing the Obama administration’s “Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative” (CNCI) available online.

The announcement was made today at the RSA Conference in San Francisco by recently-appointed White House Cyber-Security coordinator Howard Schmidt. In addition to describing the CNCI, the document also outlines 12 smaller initiatives for improving the nation’s security posture.

Here are the 12 elements of the CNCI as laid out in the document, which can be viewed here where they are described in greater detail:

◆Manage the Federal Enterprise Network as a single network enterprise with Trusted Internet Connections.
◆Deploy an intrusion detection system of sensors across the Federal enterprise.
◆Pursue deployment of intrusion prevention systems across the Federal enterprise.
◆Coordinate and redirect research and development (R&D) efforts.
◆Connect current cyber ops centers to enhance situational awareness.
◆Develop and implement a government-wide cyber counterintelligence (CI) plan.
◆Increase the security of our classified networks.
◆Expand cyber education.
◆Define and develop enduring "leap-ahead" technology, strategies, and programs.
◆Define and develop enduring deterrence strategies and programs.
◆Develop a multi-pronged approach for global supply chain risk management.
◆Define the Federal role for extending cybersecurity into critical infrastructure domains.

According to the document, the activities under way to implement the recommendations of the Cyberspace Policy Review build on the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) launched by former President George W. Bush in January 2008.

“President Obama determined that the CNCI and its associated activities should evolve to become key elements of a broader, updated national U.S. cybersecurity strategy,” the document reads. “These CNCI initiatives will play a key role in supporting the achievement of many of the key recommendations of President Obama’s Cyberspace Policy Review."

Each of the goals, Schmidt explained, forms an important component of the government’s cyber-security efforts.

“Transparency and partnerships are concepts that have to go hand in hand,” he told the audience. “We can’t ask industry to help the government (and) the government can’t offer to help industry unless we have that transparency. So we believe this is particularly important in areas such as the CNCI where they have been legitimate questions about sensitive topics and the role of the intelligence community in cyber-security, and how they can help us while still preserving civil liberties.”

"In order to be successful against today’s cyber-security threats we must continue to seek out new and innovative partnerships,” he continued, adding that “our collective knowledge and our experience are probably the most powerful tool that we have.”

“We’re not going to wind up beating our adversaries because they’re weak…we’ll beat them because we will become stronger,” he said.

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