By Kelly Jackson Higgins
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Paller was among three witnesses who testified that a White House official, not DHS, should oversee and coordinate the nation's cybersecurity policy and deployment. James Lewis, director and senior fellow for technology and public policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Tom Kellermann, vice president of security awareness for Core Security Technologies, concurred. A fourth witness on the panel, Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary at DHS, and now partner at law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP, was the only one who disagreed.
Core's Kellermann, meanwhile, who served on the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, told the committee that a common problem across the federal government is that CIOs lead IT spending decisions, rather than CISOs. "A CIO is focused on productivity and access, whereas the CISO's [perspective] is different," he said.
Kellermann also pointed out that the goal of major cyberattackers is not to disrupt service, but to remain under the radar. "The enemy wants to remain persistent and clandestine, infiltrating your systems. He wants to remain on a mission and to control the integrity of your data and to manipulate you," he said.
Source: Dark Reading
