From: CyberScoop
Shaun Waterman
This is the second article in a three-part series on President Barack Obama’s record on cybersecurity issues. Click here for part one, an interview with the Department of Defense’s Aaron Hughes.
The government shut down two weeks after Phyllis Schneck started as the Department of Homeland Security’s deputy undersecretary for National Protection and Programs in September 2013. So she had a lot of time to read and think about one of the big questions that faced her right away — the future of one of DHS’s marquee cybersecurity efforts, the network monitoring program called Einstein.
“The first question that was asked of me … out of the White House and out of our management directorate at DHS was, ‘Do we put a fork in it?’” said Schneck, a computer scientist who joined the department from computer security pioneer McAfee.
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