Obama Selects Former NSA Adviser, IBM ex-CEO as Leaders of Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity
President Barack Obama selected the leaders of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity (CENC) Wednesday, announcing former National Security Adviser Tom Donilon as the commission’s chairman and former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano as vice chairman. Obama formed CENC last week…
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as part of the White House’s Cybersecurity National Action Plan, which industry lawyers and lobbyists have viewed as an ambitious capstone to the Obama administration’s cybersecurity legacy. CENC is required to make recommendations by Dec. 1 on strengthening private sector and public sector cybersecurity (see 1602090068). Donilon "understands government and national security issues" and Palmisano "understands the intimacies of computing, of the digital world, the economic aspects of this, making them the "two of the best possible people to chair" CENC, Obama said, according to a White House transcript. "We're confident that this is going to be the kind of product that is of great importance to everybody. And this is not an ideological issue that should divide Washington along party lines. This is something that everybody has got an interest in getting right." Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will also be “working very closely” with CENC, Obama said.