Michael Daniel's Path to the White House

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/michael-daniels-path-to-white-house-i-2422

By Eric Chabrow
Gov Info Security
August 21, 2014

Michael Daniel sees his lack of technical expertise in IT security as an 
asset in his job as White House cybersecurity coordinator.

"Being too down in the weeds at the technical level could actually be a 
little bit of a distraction," Daniel, a special assistant to the 
president, says in an interview with Information Security Media Group.

"You can get enamored with the very detailed aspects of some of the 
technical solutions," he says. "And, particularly here at the White House 
... the real issue is to look at the broad, strategic picture and the 
impact that technology will have."

Daniel came out of obscurity in the federal bureaucracy in May 2012 - he 
was serving as the intelligence branch chief at the White House Office of 
Management and Budget - when President Obama tapped him to replace the 
administration's first cybersecurity coordinator, Howard Schmidt (see Who 
Is Michael Daniel?).

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