[Infowarrior] - New Details on the National Cyber Security Initiative

[Richard Forno]

Almost everything about the Comprehensive National Cyber Security  
Initiative (CNCI), established by National Security Presidential  
Directive 54 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23, is  
classified.

But following a classified March 2008 hearing on the subject, Senators  
Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins of the Senate Homeland Security and  
Governmental Affairs Committee teased out a few unclassified details  
about the effort.

“The response (pdf) includes information on the National Cyber  
Security Center, how privacy will be protected under the CNCI, how  
success of the initiative will be measured, and how the Department  
views the private sector’s role in the initiative,” the Senators noted  
in a news release. “The Department chose to redact information  
relating to contracting at the National Cyber Security Division  
(NCSD). The senators have asked DHS explain their reasons for the  
redactions.”

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http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/08/cyber-sec_init.html