White House Selects Cybersecurity Chief

[NVMojo]

anybody know this guy or about him?

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department picked an industry information security specialist Monday as its cybersecurity chief, filling a job that has had no permanent director for a year.

Greg Garcia was appointed assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said. The cybersecurity job was created in July 2005, but department officials have struggled to find candidates willing to take significant pay cuts from industry jobs to fill it.

Part of Garcia's job will be to oversee the department's National Cyber Security Division. For the last two years, that office has been run by Donald "Andy" Purdy Jr., who is a two-year contract employee on loan from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon has received $19 million in contracts from Homeland Security's cybersecurity office under Purdy's management.

Garcia "brings the right mix of experience in government and the private sector to continue to strengthen our robust partnerships that are essential to this field," Chertoff said in a statement.

more...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2006/sep/18/091805636.html

[Tempest]

1. The head of a rightwing IT industry PAC

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Information_Technology_Association_Of_America

ITAA's "NET" PAC spending on political campaigns (a mere $10,000 or less over the 2004, 2002 and 2000 election cycles) does not reflect its political influence, though a vast majority of those funds (87% or higher) went to Republican candidates in 2002 and 2000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics

[NVMojo]

2. wow, thanks for the link. We had to know it was a Bush leg-humper ...

it always is.

[Tempest]

3. Like death and taxes

Something you can always count on.

[Kagemusha]

4. They probably waited a year so he could pad his wallet

compensation for the loss in pay from entering public service.

[gratuitous]

5. I wonder why Purdy couldn't continue in the position?

Hot date for the Junior Prom at Carnegie Mellon, perhaps?

That's what some people are saying, or so I've read on the internets. (And now you have, too.)

[lpbk2713]

6. Ah, but what does he know about judging horse shows?

That seemed to be an important credential for someone else.




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