GOP Presidential Hopeful Carson Proposes National Cyber Security Administration
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson proposed creating a National Cyber Security Administration (NCSA) Monday as part of a campaign position paper on protecting U.S. interests online. “Just as we established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to coordinate and focus…
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the U.S. space program, we must create a national initiative to organize and streamline our efforts to secure America’s online presence,” Carson said. The NCSA wouldn’t be a “new federal bureaucracy” but “a consolidation and unification of the countless and often redundant programs, initiatives and offices which operate disjointedly throughout the government,” Carson said. “Such an agency must be kept separate from the military, but work with them when national security demands it. The NCSA will create a unity of purpose, not just across federal agencies, but in cooperation with ‘We the People.’ This will be America’s venue to bring together experts and lay persons towards a common goal of securing the country, from the individual user at home to the highest government official.” Other GOP presidential hopefuls previously released campaign proposals on cybersecurity. Jeb Bush’s proposal, released in September, emphasized the need for now-passed cybersecurity information sharing legislation and the end of information sequestration at the Department of Defense, NSA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Bush also pushed for NTIA to retain its oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority rather than transitioning oversight to ICANN as proposed. Carly Fiorina pushed for a centralized command for protecting federal networks and systems in response to data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management.