Howard Schmidt

Cybersecurity chief Howard Schmidt has a big job ahead.

Last week, the Obama administration's most senior official with responsibility for the internet and cyberspace made a significant intervention in the increasingly hysterical US debate over cyberwar.

U.S. cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt says there is no cyberwar being waged against the United States.

Government officials played a starring role at the annual RSA Conference last week, laying out their plans for government cybersecurity, particularly the need for increased cooperation with industry, in keynotes and panel sessions throughout the week.

Howard Schmidt told Wired magazine at this week's RSA conference that he considered cyberwar "a terrible metaphor" and a "terrible concept."

Obama's new cybersecurity czar doesn't much like the term "cyberwar," calling it a "terrible metaphor" and a "terrible concept."

The Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks.

The White House's new cyber czar tells Wired.com that "There is no cyberwar."

Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing.

Howard Schmidt, the White House's cyber-security advisor, has labelled Australia's cyber-security strategy as "wonderful" during his talk at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.

Well up to a point but if you wanted to give consumers confidence you could just put a big red button on the site saying 'You're safe'.

As part of that goal, the Obama administration's top cyber-security official, Howard Schmidt, said Tuesday that improving these partnerships will be a priority of his office.

The Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks.

The Obama administration on Tuesday gave the public a peek at the Bush administration's classified plan to secure the nation's computer systems, but the newly revealed list of broad goals provided few surprises and key provisions remain secret.

Sessions at the 2010 RSA Conference will address three security themes: evolving Google attacks, private and public cloud models and critical infrastructure protection.

The Obama administration on Tuesday plans to declassify portions of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, created during the Bush administration as a secret effort to harness the nation's defensive and offensive strategies for protecting commercial and government networks.

Howard Schmidt, President Obama's newly minted "cyber-czar" certainly has his work cut out for him.

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CSO — Adam Shostack is co-author of The New School of Information Security, security specialist at Microsoft and ringleader of the popular Emergent Chaos blog.

Adam Shostack is co-author of The New School of Information Security, security specialist at Microsoft and ringleader of the popular Emergent Chaos blog.