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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 11:44 PM
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Obama picks former Bush administration adviser Howard Schmidt as cyber-security chief
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2220558120091222

WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama picked former Bush administration adviser Howard Schmidt to serve as national cybersecurity coordinator, the White House said on Tuesday.

Schmidt is president of the Information Security Forum, a nonprofit consortium of 300 large corporations and public-sector organizations working on cybersecurity issues.

Schmidt, a cyber-adviser in President George W. Bush's administration, will be based in the National Security Council. He will report to the national security adviser to coordinate federal government cybersecurity policy for both military and civilian agencies.


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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 11:50 PM
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1. This uncivilized cretin? Tell me; what's so wrong with this educated man?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Schmidt

Howard Schmidt

Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 20, 2009
President Barack Obama


Howard A. Schmidt is an American computer security specialist. He is President of the Information Security Forum and President and CEO of R & H Security Consulting LLC, which he founded in May 2005. <1>. He is also a board member of the Finnish security company Codenomicon, international president of the Information Systems Security Association<2> and board member of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium<3>, commonly known as (ISC)². In October 2008 he was named one of the 50 most influential people in business IT by readers and editors of Baseline Magazine.<4>

Schmidt serves on the Executive Committee of the Information Technology Sector Coordination Council. His memberships include the High Technology Crime Investigation Association, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He has testified before congressional committees on computer security and cyber crime <5> and has featured on various worldwide television and radio shows including, BBC, ABC, CNN, CNBC, Fox TV talking about cyber-security, investigations and technology.<6> <7> He is a co-author of The Black Book on Corporate Security and author of Patrolling CyberSpace, Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Data Security <8>

Schmidt has been appointed to the Information Security Privacy Advisory Board to advise the National Institute of Standards and Technology the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on information security and privacy issues pertaining to federal government information systems.<9>
Contents


* 1 Biography
* 2 Cyber-Security Coordinator
* 3 Publications
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

Biography

Schmidt holds a bachelor's degree in business administration (BSBA) and a master’s degree in organizational management (MAOM) from the University of Phoenix. He also holds an honorary doctorate degree in humane letters. Schmidt’s certifications include CISSP and CISM.<10> He is a professor of practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology's GTISC, professor of research at Idaho State University, adjunct distinguished fellow with Carnegie Mellon's CyLab, and a distinguished fellow with the Ponemon Institute. <11>

On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, Schmidt was named as the United States' top computer security advisor to President Barack Obama. Previously, Schmidt served as a cyber-adviser in President George W. Bush's White House and has served as chief security strategist for the US CERT Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division through Carnegie Mellon University, in support of the Department of Homeland Security. He has served as vice president and chief information security officer and chief security strategist for eBay. <12>

In May 2003, Schmidt retired from the White House after 31 years of public service in local and federal government. After the 9/11 attacks, he was appointed by President Bush as the vice chair of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the special adviser for cyberspace security for the White House in December 2001.<13> While at the White House, he assisted in the creation of the US National Strategy to Secure CyberSpace. <14> He assumed the role as the chair in January 2003 until his retirement in May 2003, when he joined eBay. <15>

In 1997, Schmidt joined Microsoft, as the director of information security, chief information security officer (CISO), and chief security officer (CSO). He was the co-founder of the Trustworthy Computing Security Strategies Group.<16>

In 1994, Schmidt was a supervisory special agent and director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)Computer Forensic Lab and Computer Crime and Information Warfare Division.<17> In 1996, while serving in that position, he established the first dedicated computer forensic lab in the government, which was the basis for the formation of the Defense Computer Forensic Laboratory (DCFL). <18>

Prior to the AFOSI in 1994, Schmidt was with the FBI at the National Drug Intelligence Center, where he headed the Computer Exploitation Team. <19> Before working at the FBI, Schmidt was a city police officer from 1983 to 1994 for the Chandler Police Department in Arizona where he served on the SWAT team and the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Unit, and formed and led the Special Enforcement Team. <20>

Schmidt began his government service in the United States Air Force in 1967, where he studied chemical weapons, high explosives, and nuclear weapons while attending munitions school. Between 1968 and 1974, Schmidt completed three tours of duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.<21> He left active military duty in 1974 when started his civil service career at the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field, since renamed as the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range and served as chief of transportation and deputy director of resource management until 1982.

He served in the Arizona Air National Guard with the 161st Communications Squadron based at Phoenix International Airport, from 1989 until 1998. In 1998, Schmidt transferred to the U.S. Army Reserves as a special agent, Criminal Investigation Division, where he continues to serve and is currently assigned to the Computer Crime Investigations Unit (CCIU). He has also served with the 315th MP Det (CID) at Ft. Lawton in WA. He has testified as an expert witness in federal and military courts in the areas of computer crime, computer forensics and Internet crime. <22>

Schmidt was the first president of the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center.<23> He is a former executive board member of the International Organization of Computer Evidence, and served as the co-chairman of the Federal Computer Investigations Committee.

He served as a board member for the CyberCrime Advisory Board of the National White Collar Crime Center, and was a distinguished special lecturer at the University of New Haven, Conn., teaching a graduate certificate course in forensic computing. He has also taught courses for the FBI and DEA on the use of computers and law enforcement investigations.

He served as an augmented member to the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology in the formation of an Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection.
Cyber-Security Coordinator

On December 21st, 2009, the White House announced that Schmidt had been appointed to the Executive Office of Policy for the United States White House to serve as the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration.<24>

Concerns were immediately announced regarding public safety, critical infrastructure, and public interest legalities by consumer safety and legal rights activists as Howard Schmidt was personally responsible for introducing a majority of critical threats and exploits to consumer hard and software technologies in support of easy exploitation both by law enforcement and organized crime or terrorist interests alike. <25>
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-23-09 01:04 AM
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7. Okay, since you asked.
The Press will want to examine Howard Schmidt’s track record as a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) “http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/about/people.html">CyLab Fellow.”

The public record shows that Schmidt’s colleague at CMU, CyLab’s http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/020621/020621_sustain.html">most-publicized Founding Director, was in reality dot-com conman named William Guttman.

The http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/011205/011205_directors.html">persistent claim-to-fame of Schmidt’s academic colleague has been that he was the CEO and architect of “Printcafe,” an internet start up super-success.

SEC reports show that Printcafe was really just a http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108507/0000950149-00-000602-index.html">fast-buck IPO scheme, a “roll-up” of five competing companies purchased during a Jan-Mar 2000 six-week venture capital and debt spending spree of $144 million.

But the Internet bubble burst in March 2000, before Printcafe could IPO.

Printcafe revenue then http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108507/000095012802000316/0000950128-02-000316-index.htm">plunged from $55 million to $25 million during the year 2000.

In 2002, the Printcafe “Hail Mary” IPO was the http://www.ipomonitor.com/reviews/2002/pages/bestworst.shtml">"worst of the year," and crashed from $10/share in June to $0.92/share in November.

Insolvent in Oct 2003, Printcafe became yet another spectacular dot-com flameout as it lost $250 million of public and private money and its http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-104336770.html">officers and directors were charged with securities fraud!

Ironically, the Oct 2003 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03295/233305-28.stm">public record birth announcement of Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab appeared on the same day, on the same page, in a paragraph adjacent to the death notice of William Guttman’s insolvent Printcafe dot-com!

The public record shows that Schmidt’s CyLab colleague was also the architect and manager of Aileron Capital, a hedge fund shut down in 2006 by then-CEO Richard Fuld of Lehman Bros. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06358/748433-28.stm">after investors threatened lawsuits for managerial looting and fraud.

The public record record further shows that Schmidt shared a Carnegie Mellon stage with William Guttman during a 2002 White House meeting on Cybersecurity, and that Schmidt subsequently received a personal guided tour and briefing about Guttman’s big-money “Sustainable Computing Consortium” which was funded by Microsoft and NASA among others.

The public record shows that formerly-prominent IBM, Microsoft, and NASA are conspicuously absent from the http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/partners/current_partners.html">list of CyLab ‘partners'. (Enquiring minds might correctly assume that their attorneys and field agents investigated whistle-blowing that CMU and Schmidt ignored.)

But Guttman http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/faculty-details/index.aspx?faculty_id=42">remains at Carnegie Mellon where he serves as a ‘Special Advisor’ to the Provost and is also the the Chairman of iCarnegie, the university’s for-profit international education initiative.

Carnegie Mellon’s President Jared Cohon has stated that CyLab does not security-clear its Directors! our new Cybersecurity Czar ignored an obvious “insider threat” at CyLab.

Future Cybersecurity Czar Schmidt was just as easily conned as the clueless administration of Carnegie Mellon.

Despite Schmidt’s long-standing awareness about exhaustive whistle-blowing to CMU about the CyLab management identity fraud, America’s newest Cybersecurity Czar has confined his comments about Carnegie Mellon’s Guttman problem to the university’s General Counsel, Microsoft Security, and the editors of Chief Security Officer magazine.

America’s new Cybersecurity Czar is a player in what is surely a contender for “Cybersecurity Story of the Year.”
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ipaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-23-09 01:22 AM
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8. +1 Thanks for the info. n/t
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-23-09 01:29 AM
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9. Cyber Fox guarding Digital Henhouse. It's gotten to be S.O.P.
Meanwhile, the Real Dollars flew the coop to Switzerland.

Your reply should be its own thread, girl gone mad. Outstanding stuff, there.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-23-09 01:51 AM
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11. wish I could rec this--could you post this as a separate thread?
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 11:52 PM
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2. "Obama picks former Bush administration ..."
Why does that sound familiar?

Change that doesn't involve a change in personnel, I guess.

(But those Bush guys were so good...)
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-23-09 12:08 AM
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4. If you even care about the truth, see post#1. But my guess is you don't. nt
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zalinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 11:58 PM
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3. Wasn't he the guy that "lost" all those white house emails? n/t
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-23-09 12:42 AM
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5. Great minds think alike. I was just going to post this! LOL!
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-23-09 12:49 AM
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6. Is he?
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-23-09 01:50 AM
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10. ssdd
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