ISA President & Chairman Appointed to Panel
From The Internet Security Alliance
The Isalliance Board released “The Cyber Security Social Contract: Policy Recommendations for the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress” which critiques the National Strategy to Secure Cyber Space as well as provides detailed recommendations for moving forward. In recognition of this, and other ISA efforts, ISAlliance President Larry Clinton and Board Chairman Ty Sagalow of Zurich Insurance have been asked to serve on the experts panel Commissioned by the House Committee on Cyber Security and administered by the federal government’s General Accountability Office (GAO).
Geithner Appointment Clears Landscape
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
Despite the enactment of the USA PATRIOT ACT, which was to strengthen the Banking Secrecy Act and both of which were supposed to follow the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), when all that helicopter dust finally settled, an audit showed that all of the puzzle pieces had been placed on the table, but none of the old guard had done anything to actually make the security really work.
