Editor’s Note: The Nixon Administration developed innovative and enduring regulatory responses to diverse environmental, energy and other public policy needs. The Nixon Administration’s development of centralized White House review of key regulatory decisions can provide insights for the entrepreneurial leaders now developing federal responses to the Cyber Security Crisis. A CSIS interview with a fomer Nixon Administration official discussing the Administration’s response to the energy crisis may be found here.
From: FCW
By Sean Lyngaas
The next president won’t take office for another 18 months, but there is already a task force to advise him or her on the critical job of improving the nation’s cybersecurity.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies’ panel, comprising technical experts on each coast, plans to issue recommendations for executive action to the next president. The task force has bicameral and bipartisan backing: Its co-chairs are Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
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