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Recommendations To President Elect Obama For How To Improve Cybersecurity

Today the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency released a report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th President," that includes recommendations for a comprehensive strategy to improve cybersecurity in federal systems and in critical infrastructure.

See the report here.

Keep in mind as you read this that these are high level recommendations. To fully implement will take significant planning and thoughtful leadership. However, none of the recommendations seemed to be unachievable. And it is about time cybersecurity, and the associated privacy issues, are seriously addressed by our government.

Overall, this is a good report, and a good read, and I hope the new administration implements most (optimistically all) of the recommendations.

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 8, 2008 8:49 PM |

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Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for the past two decades. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the world's best privacy experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both 2007 and 2008. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 13th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.