] President Bush has approved the White House's
] long-awaited national cybersecurity strategy, a landmark
] document intended to guide government and industry
] efforts to protect the nation's most critical information
] systems from cyberattack.
]
] In an e-mail sent Thursday to White House officials,
] cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke said that the
] National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace has received
] Bush's signature and will be released to the public in
] the next few weeks. The strategy has been in development
] since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
] attacks.
]
] Schmidt, formerly chief security officer for Microsoft
] Corp., brings to the job a deep understanding of the
] need for industry and government to work together on
] cybersecurity, said Alan Paller, research director for
] the SANS Institute, a non-profit security research and
] training group.

This leaves a bad taste in my mouth at a time when I'm feeling that strange urge to be overly sarcastic for no particular reason.

Microsoft is not _not_ a good place to pull your security people from, IMHO. Granted, I know know jack about Schmidt, but Microsoft is the source of most of the security problems that threaten our network infrastructure. For Jah's sake, you'd be better off getting computer security people from the RIAA, they have been hacked a few times less then the average MS product..

Also, while I'm out of control bitching, I'm not sure what SANS actually does other then produce commentary thats obvious to any skilled security expert (I can't remember reading any 'eye openers' from them), or flattering entities that funds them. Oh yeah, they send me shitloads (at least one thing every week) of snail-mail SPAM for their training, which always appears to be very novice level. Am I not paying attention, or missing something? They have a reading room, with some stuff in it, I think.. Maybe I'm just predisposed to have a bad opinion of a _network_ security org that can only seem to communicate with me via the snail mail system.. Shrug..

Well, at least I can sleep good tonight knowing that George Bush has taken steps to thwart the cyber-villains. Damn 16 year olds, always causing trouble..

Ok. Phew! Worked through that need to be a bitch. Back to your regularly scheduled blogging..

Bush Approves Cybersecurity Strategy (TechNews.com)