2 years of Homeland Security, 4 CyberSec chiefs step down.
The Department of Homeland Security has been in existence for less than 2 years, but it's already been through 4 cybersecurity chiefs.
Amit Yoran put a positive spin on his resignation:
"The department made some meaningful progress and built a startup -- that is no trivial activity," Yoran said. "We've hired some fantastic expertise. We've achieved our primary objectives."
The grapevine tells a different story.
Yoran has privately described frustrations in recent months to colleagues in the technology industry, according to lobbyists...
Mr. Yoran wasn't alone in these frustrations...
Richard Clarke quit and wrote a tell-all ripping the Bush administration for not being serious about cybersecurity and terrorism in general; Schmidt quit after just three months; Rand Beers was so fed up when he quit after just one month in the job that he joined the Kerry campaign; and now Amit Yoran quits, citing frustration with cybersecurity's "low priority" at DHS.
If a lack of authority is the problem, some lawmakers are trying to force the executive branch into fixing it. Legislation is being put forward that would promote the cybersecurity chief from being three steps below the head of the DHS to being one step from the top.
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wings
I'm lost
November 2002
OCT 04, 2004 08:37 AM