And last month, President Obama released his cybersecurity strategy and said he would appoint a "cybersecurity coordinator" to lead efforts to protect government computers, the air traffic control system and other essential systems.
After 10 months of delays, President Obama has finally chosen a cybersecurity coordinator, filling the so-called "cyber czar" position he had long promised to create to shore up the nation's defenses against hackers and cyberspies.
The White House is getting a new cybersecurity coordinator.
The White House approach appears to place a new "cybersecurity coordinator" over all of those agencies.
"Governments are starting to say, 'In order to best protect my country, I need to find vulnerabilities in other countries,' " said Howard Schmidt, a former White House cybersecurity coordinator.
"Proliferation is a real problem, and no country is prepared to deal with it," said Melissa Hathaway, a former United States national cybersecurity coordinator.
The agreement will include the establishment of a direct secure voice communications line between the United States cybersecurity coordinator in Washington and the deputy secretary of Russia's Security Council in Moscow.
Healey also cites Michael Daniel, a special assistant to the president and the US's cybersecurity coordinator, to support the claim: "The idea that we have these vast stockpiles of vulnerabilities stored up – you know, Raiders of the Lost Ark-style – is just not accurate," Daniel has said.
She left the administration when she was not chosen as the White House cybersecurity coordinator.
HOWARD SCHMIDT, former White House cybersecurity coordinator, on hackers who sell information on computer coding flaws to the highest bidder.
