奥巴马拟任命"网络沙皇"：属其国安团队成员

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明报专讯/美国总统奥巴马周五宣布将任命一名「网络沙皇」（cyber czar），监管针对政府与私人电脑网络的窃密等犯罪活动。奥巴马表示，网络威胁是美国现时面的最严重经济与国家安全挑战之一，他补充称，「网络沙皇」将成为其国安团队其中一名成员。与此同时，《纽约时报》报道，奥巴马在未来数周将签署机密命令，授权美国国防部成立专门针对网络司令部。

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_cyber_struggles

Obama setting up better security for computers

America has failed for too long to protect the security of its computer networks, President Barack Obama said Friday, announcing he will name a
new cyber czar to press for action.

Obama said the U.S. has reached a "transformational moment" when computer networks are probed and attacked millions of times a day.

"It's now clear this cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation," Obama said, adding, "We're not as prepared as we should be, as a government or as a country."

He assured the business community, however, that the government will not dictate how private industry should tighten digital defenses. And he made it clear that the new cyber security effort will not involve any monitoring of private networks or individual e-mail accounts.

The Internet, he said, should remain open and free.

Corporate leaders and cyber experts, however, say they are concerned that the new coordinator will not wield enough power to force reluctant government agencies to put aside turf wars or dictate how they spend the millions of dollars the U.S. pours into its digital budgets.

"Placing a strategy "czar" in the White House will hinder Congress' ability to effectively oversee federal cybersecurity activities and will do little to resolve the bureaucratic conflicts, turf battles, and confusing lines of authority that have undermined past cybersecurity efforts," said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

"I expect that a position that has a lesser role, that doesn't have budget authority, that is reporting up through the NEC, would probably not result in the kinds of changes that really need to be made," said Gene Spafford, computer security expert and professor at Purdue University, where candidate Obama first pledged last year to make cyber a priority.


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