Government Information Security Podcast

Melissa Hathaway worked on the development of Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative when she worked in the Bush White House and assessed the CNCI as the leader of President Obama's 60-day cyberspace policy review. GovInfoSecurity.com's Executive Editor Eric Chabrow ran into Hathaway at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco earlier this month, just after the White House issued a declassified summary of CNCI, a series of initiatives aimed at securing federal government information assets and the nation's critical IT infrastructure. Besides responding to a question whether declassifying parts of CNCI was a good idea, Hathaway also addressed: Collaboration between government and the private sector and the private sector and private sector on developing cyber defenses. How much regulation the government should impose on the private sector to assure IT security. A new idea she hadn't thought of before attending the RSA IT security conference. Hathaway left government service last summer, for