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Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator “czar” Howard Schmidt
By karen | January 26, 2010
Howard A. Schmidt, who was a cyber-adviser in the Bush’s years, will be Obama’s new cybersecurity coordinator.
Before he joined the Bush White House, he worked as chief security officer at Microsoft. He then became vice president and chief information security officer at eBay. He served in the Air Force from 1967 to 1983 in various roles, both active-duty and civilian, and headed the computer exploitation team at the FBI’s National Drug Intelligence Center in the 1990s.
He is now president of the Information Security Forum, a nonprofit consortium of corporations and public-sector organizations working to resolve cybercrime and cybersecurity issues.
“He has many of the qualities and connections that one would think would be good for the position,” said a colleague who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to be candid. “He is a team player. I don’t have high expectations for that position as it is currently defined, so he’s very possibly overqualified for it.”
READ the full version of this story at the Washington Post.
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