Re: U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Okay, now I'm really confused. :-)

Check out _this_ article in today's Washington Post (AP):

[snip]

"Deal for Cybersecurity Chief Questioned"

The Bush administration's cybersecurity chief is being paid $577,000
under a two-year agreement with the university that employs him and
also does extensive business with the federal office he manages.

Donald "Andy" Purdy Jr. has been acting director of the Homeland
Security Department's National Cyber Security Division for 21 months.
His contract, which has drawn attention from members of Congress, is
paying him more than the $175,000 annual salary that Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff earns.

Purdy is employed by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, which
has loaned him to the Homeland Security Department in exchange for the
government paying nearly all of his salary. Meanwhile, Purdy's
cybersecurity division has paid Carnegie Mellon $19 million in
contracts this year, almost one-fifth the unit's total budget.

[snip]

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/28/AR2006062800240.html

How many damned "cybersecurity chiefs" are there? ;-)

- ferg



-- "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:

Wait a minute... Yoran held the top spot at Int-Q-Tel for only
4 months, resigning in April 2006, and from what I can gather,
a quick succession of people have rotated in & out of various
roles of "cybersecurity."

ref:
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/04/four-months-later-in-q-tel-again-needs.html
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/05/feds-eye-new-cybersecurity-post.html

What's up with that?

Maybe I'm confused, and maybe you guys can help me sort this out,
Yoran's timeline seems to be a bit askew. :-)

Via MSNBC (AP).

[snip]

The government's cybersecurity chief has abruptly resigned from the
Homeland Security Department amid a concerted campaign by the
technology industry and some lawmakers to persuade the Bush
administration to give him more authority and money for protection
programs.

Amit Yoran, a former software executive from Symantec Corp., made his
resignation effective Thursday as director of the National Cyber
Security Division, giving a single's day notice of his intention to
leave. He kept the job one year.

Yoran has privately confided to industry colleagues his frustrations in
recent months over what he considers the department's lack of attention
paid to computer security issues, according to lobbyists and others who
recounted these conversations on condition they not be identified
because the talks were personal.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13589858/

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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