{"48201":{"#nid":"48201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Professor Howard Schmidt Named National Cyber Czar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Barack Obama has\nappointed Howard Schmidt, adjunct faculty member in the Georgia Tech\nInformation Security Center (GTISC) in the College of Computing, as the new\nWhite House cybersecurity coordinator. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Howard is one of the world\u0027s leading authorities on computer\nsecurity, with some 40 years of experience in government, business and law\nenforcement,\u0022said John Brennan, assistant to the president for Homeland\nSecurity and Counterterrorism, in an e-mail announcing the appointment last\nmonth. \u0022Howard will have regular access to the president and serve as a key\nmember of his National Security Staff.\u0026nbsp; He will also work closely with his\neconomic team to ensure that our cybersecurity efforts keep the nation secure\nand prosperous.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAt\nTech, Schmidt has helped set up the GTISC industry advisory board. He has worked on\na research project to evaluate the cyber security policies of various United\nStates stakeholders. He has also given lectures on security policies and\nstrategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESchmidt\npreviously served as former chief security strategist for the US CERT Partners Program\nand former special advisor to the White House for Cyberspace Security under\nPresident George W. Bush. He joined Tech in 2006 to work with GTISC to improve the state of\ninformation security by lending his vast knowledge and expertise in this\ngrowing technological area.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Schmidt\u0027s\ndistinguished career as an information security advocate includes leadership\npositions with both public and private sector organizations. He has served on\nthe President\u0027s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, was an augmented\nmember of the President\u0027s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and\nheld executive positions with the Information Systems Security Association, the\nInformation Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the National\nInstitute of Standards and Technology and the Information Security Privacy\nAdvisory Board. Schmidt also served as vice president and chief security\nstrategist for eBay and chief security officer for Microsoft Corporation,\nforming and directing the computer giant\u0027s Trustworthy Computer Security\nStrategies Group.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Barack Obama has appointed Howard Schmidt, adjunct faculty member in the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) in the College of Computing, as the new White House cybersecurity coordinator.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"President Obama names Howard Schmidt cybersecurity coordinator."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2010-01-06 12:33:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"48203":{"id":"48203","type":"image","title":"thumbnail Howard Schmidt Named National Cybersecurity Coordinator","body":null,"created":"1449175379","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:59","changed":"1475894455","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:55","alt":"thumbnail Howard Schmidt Named National Cybersecurity Coordinator","file":{"fid":"101285","name":"schmidt.obama_.100.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/schmidt.obama_.100_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/schmidt.obama_.100_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":28820,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/schmidt.obama_.100_0.jpg?itok=2wbnh9IM"}},"48202":{"id":"48202","type":"image","title":"Howard Schmidt Named National Cybersecurity Coordinator","body":null,"created":"1449175379","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:59","changed":"1475894455","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:55","alt":"Howard Schmidt Named National Cybersecurity Coordinator","file":{"fid":"101284","name":"P121709LJ-0023.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/P121709LJ-0023_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/P121709LJ-0023_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":134100,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/P121709LJ-0023_0.jpg?itok=xXm4zffk"}}},"media_ids":["48203","48202"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"344","name":"cyber"},{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"8184","name":"czar"},{"id":"2254","name":"gtisc"},{"id":"463","name":"obama"},{"id":"169269","name":"schmidt"},{"id":"167055","name":"security"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStefany Wilson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-7253\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["stefany.wilson@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}