Melissa Hathaway

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Melissa Hathaway is a US government official. She was named Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils by President Barack Obama on February 9, 2009 . On August 21, 2009, Hathaway resigned from the post.

Life

Hathaway served as advisor to the Director of National Intelligence , Mike McConnell , and as Cyber ​​Coordination Executive . She also headed the National Cyber ​​Study Group (NCSG), where she made a significant contribution to the development of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI; for example: " Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative "). In January 2008 she was appointed director of the inter-agency Joint Interagency Cyber ​​Task Force (JIACTF).

Hathaway was previously a specialist in cybersecurity strategies at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton , where she managed information operations, developed long-term strategies and dedicated herself to the cooperation and coordination of politics and business in this field. Before joining Booz Allen Hamilton, Hathaway worked for the consulting firm Evidence Based Research . In this position she worked a. a. on models to detect and track cocaine smuggling and trafficking in the United States.

Melissa Hathaway graduated from American University in Washington, DC and graduated from the US Armed Forces Staff College , where she earned a certificate of proficiency in information operations.

Her first assignment was a comprehensive 60-day inventory and analysis of US government agencies and agencies' programs dealing with information security in its broadest sense.

Quotes

“Joking aside, the United States is really at a crossroads. The globally connected digital information and communication infrastructure, known as cyberspace , underpins almost every facet of modern society and provides crucial support for the US economy, civil infrastructure , public order and national security. This technology has transformed the world economy and connected people in ways that were never imagined. For example: My boys are eight and nine and use the internet every day to do homework, blog with their friends and teacher, and feed their webkinz . As your mom, I'm standing in front of you today with no fewer than three Blackberries and a pager ! One of which will apparently soon self-destruct. I just have to find out which one. "

- Speech at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco on April 22, 2009

"We are still digital infants."

- Melissa Hathaway at a presentation at CSIS, June 12, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Melissa Hathaway: Speech at the RSA security conference in San Francisco on April 22, 2009 (via "Washington Post", April 22, 2009 - PDF, 6 pp., 103 kB; see Brian Krebs: Obama's Cyber ​​Czar Offers Few Details on Govt. Strategy )

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SURNAME Hathaway, Melissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American government official
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century