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.