GETTY IMAGES Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, says the issue of cybersecurity "transcends the jurisdictional purview of individual departments and agencies."From The Washington Times:
A cybersecurity review commissioned by President Obama is urging the White House to take the lead in protecting government computers from spies, criminals and other hackers -- a move that would displace the Department of Homeland Security as the lead agency.
"No single agency has a broad enough perspective to match the sweep of the challenges," said Melissa Hathaway, a consultant and former intelligence official who worked on computer security in the Bush administration and led the review under Mr. Obama.
The issue, Ms. Hathaway told a recent meeting of private intelligence contractors, "transcends the jurisdictional purview of individual departments and agencies."
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My Comment: The details have yet to be made public, but it is clear that cybersecurity will be under the domain of the White House and not Homeland Security.