White House 'Doubling Down' on Cybersecurity in New Plan, Administration Official Says
Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel defended the White House's Cybersecurity National Action Plan Thursday against criticism that CNAP was introduced too late in President Barack Obama's administration. He said CNAP “is really a capstone” of the work the administration has been…
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doing on cybersecurity since Obama took office in 2009. Industry stakeholders praised introduction Tuesday of CNAP, saying it builds off Obama's 2013 and 2015 cybersecurity executive orders, the White House's cybersecurity legislative work and other efforts. Stakeholders also questioned whether the White House would see much of a result from the plan before Obama leaves office in January and whether Congress would be willing to sign off on the White House's proposal to bump up cybersecurity funding to $19 billion in FY 2017 (see 1602090068). “We're doubling” down via CNAP on many of the White House's past cybersecurity initiatives, including new work related to critical infrastructure cybersecurity, Daniel said during a New America event. The White House believes it will be able to receive “broad” support on Capitol Hill for its cyber budget proposal despite what are likely to be “robust and frank discussions with Congress” about the Obama administration's overall $4.1 trillion FY 2017 budget proposal, Daniel said. The newly created Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity (CENC), which will need to provide recommendations to the White House by the end of 2016 on ways to improve cybersecurity in the private sector and public sector, will be able to provide a “good distillation of the path forward” on cybersecurity, Daniel said. CENC is unlikely to generate “brand new ideas” on cybersecurity but will instead probably provide the White House with recommendations based on best practices from academia, businesses and tech experts, he said.