Citing the fact that government information technology seems like “an Atari game in an Xbox world,” President Barack Obama last week issued two executive orders to create a federal privacy council and a national cybersecurity commission to improve the nation’s defenses against cybercrime.
“It is no secret that too often government IT is like an Atari game in an Xbox world,” stated Obama in a Wall Street Journal editorial. “The Social Security Administration uses systems and code from the 1960s. No successful business could operate this way. Going forward, we will require agencies to increase protections for their most valued information and make it easier for them to update their networks. And we’re creating a new federal position, Chief Information Security Officer—a position most major companies have already adopted—to drive these changes across government.”
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Erin is the managing editor of Advisen’s Front Page News. She has been covering property-casualty insurance since 2000. Previously, Erin served as editor-in-chief of The Standard, New England’s Insurance Weekly. Erin is based in Boston, Mass. Contact Erin at [email protected].
