Banking Information Security Podcast

Melissa Hathaway, who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review, says it would be a mistake to place the nation's top cybersecurity adviser in the Department of Homeland Security, as proposed by an influential senator, and not in the White House. Asked, in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com whether the idea forwarded by Sen. Susan Collins, R.-Maine, was a good one, Hathaway responded: "No. I believe there is a need to have leadership out of the White House. There have been many reports that have been written that if you establish a lead in one particular agency, they don't necessarily have the authoritative responsibility over all of the other departments and agencies. And, while I think it's important to have leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, I think that without having the leadership at the White House, we will not be able to really drive the federal government in the direction that it needs to go." Among the topics Hathaway addresses in the second of a two-part inter