Yesterday President Bush appointed Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod Beckström to run the National Cyber Security Center. What is the National Cyber Security Center, you ask? Well, it was born in January of a classified order by the President Bush, who wants to spend $30 billion over the next seven years on it.  It will be under the Department of Homeland Security.

Fine, but what does it do? The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman writes, “…officials have said little about the initiative the new center will help steer. But officials said privately that the plan is to secure government networks from spies and terrorists and then adapt that approach to the private sector.” 

So is this a government-private sector joint project, or…?  Gorman looks at Beckström’s background for clues, especially his reputation as a key thinker behind the de-centralized, counterinsurgent security approach currently in vogue at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies.  Read Gorman here.   MB

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