Obama to Name Howard A. Schmidt as Chief of Cybersecurity

“The decision to appoint Howard A. Schmidt, an industry executive with government experience who served as a cybersecurity adviser in the Bush administration and who also has a military and law enforcement background, is seen as a compromise between factions. Government officials and industry executives say there has been a behind-the-scenes dispute over whether strict new regulations are necessary to protect the network that increasingly weaves together the vast majority of the world’s computers. “

(Obama to Name Howard A. Schmidt as Chief of Cybersecurity – NYTimes.com)