At an event in Washington, D.C., members of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance warned of the potential dangers of Internet attacks and called on the next Bush administration to create a new assistant secretary position inside the Department of Homeland Security and to ratify a computer crime treaty.
"It seems to me that this should have a much higher profile within the administration," said Art Coviello, CEO of RSA Security. "In addition to infrastructure protection, (we need) an assistant secretary for cybersecurity."
Lending additional weight to this call to arms was the presence of Amit Yoran, who was director of the National Cyber Security Division inside the Department of Homeland Security before resigning in October.
Promoting the department's cybersecurity official to the rank of assistant secretary is not a new idea. A bipartisan bill introduced in September proposed that reorganization. Yoran had at least two levels of middle management between his office and outgoing department head Tom Ridge.
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