Acting White House Net-security 'czar' quits

[bijou]

Melissa Hathaway, President Obama's acting cybersecurity czar, said today she will step down later this month for personal reasons, The Wall Street Journal reports. She had been seen as a leading contender for the permanent post.

Hathaway, the acting senior director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils who served in the Bush administration, conducted the 60-day review of cybersecurity Obama ordered earlier this year.

One security specialist described her as "like the Yoda of cyber with all the research and analysis she's done." Here's an interview with Hathaway.

Government Information Security writes that a White House spokesman said Friday that "the president will be personally involved in selecting the cybersecurity coordinator, but hasn't done so yet, in part, because he's been focused on other pressing matters."

Names mentioned prominently include former White House computer security advisers Howard Schmidt and Paul Kurtz, and Frank Kramer, a onetime assistant defense secretary. Government Info Security says that about 30 people have been considered for the job.

The post would report to both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council, which may be one big reason — another being lack of influence — why many people have turned down the job, insiders tell Government Info Security: ...

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Hmm, people unwilling to board a sinking ship?

[thundley4]

How long before some embarrassing story hits the media?   

[JohnnyReb]

How long before some embarrassing story hits the media?   

Uh.....if you're talking MSM, my guess would be NEVER.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The post would report to both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council, which may be one big reason — another being lack of influence — why many people have turned down the job, insiders tell Government Info Security: ...

Sounds more like "Designated scapegoat" than "Czar" to me.