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Home » Cybersecurity Czar? Instead Place Chief in DHS, Not White House, Contends Sen. Susan Collins
Whether it’s a backlash over the number of so-called czars in the White House or an indication of the importance to homeland security when it comes to computer attacks, there is increased drum-beating to place the U.S. cybersecurity chief in the Department of Homeland Security.
Yesterday, for example, Senator Susan Collins, R-Me., ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, in a major policy address, said that the United States needs a strong cybersecurity chief, who passes Senate confirmation, and who is anchored at the Department of Homeland Security, not the White House.