White House reveals latest cybersecurity plans
March 2, 2010, 2:17pm PST | Length: 00:02:28
At the RSA conference in San Francisco, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announces the availability of a summary of the Obama administration's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Schmidt says the new plan will help create transparency within the intelligence community.
Transcript
>> Today I'm pleased to announce that the administration has updated the classification guidance for the Comprehensive National Cyber Security Initiative or CNCI, which began in 2008 and forms an important component of our cyber security efforts within the federal government. As of noon time today in about 15 minutes you'll be able to go to WhiteHouse.gov slash CyberSecurity and download the unclassified description of the CNCI and each of the 12 initiatives under the CNCI. applause Thank you.
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>> Transparency and partnership are concepts that have to go in hand in hand. We can't ask industry to help the government. 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 there 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 privacy in civil liberties. It gives the American people in particular the ability to partner with their government and participate meaningfully in the discussion about extraordinary responses and expertise of the other communities that bring to that and the protection and oversight of civil liberties and privacy. In order to be successful against today's cyber security threats we must continue to seek out new and innovative partnerships. Not only within the government, we're working hard at that, but also amongst industry, government and academia. And more importantly the public at large has to be part of this. So our collective knowledge and our experience are probably the most powerful tool that we have. We're not gonna wind up beating our adversaries because they're weak. We know that, they're strong and they're getting stronger. We'll beat them because we will become stronger. We'll develop stronger technology, train and equip a better cadre of security professionals that understand this issue to become our critical assets and become more resilient. Cyber security is a shared responsibility for all of us. We must all partner together to make sure cyber security is secure. We can only do what we can do to secure our part of cyber space and that's what we're asking all of you to do.
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