DNI's Hathaway to lead White House cyber office
February 6, 2009 - 5:06pm
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The White House as early as Monday will announce that Melissa Hathaway will join the National Security Council on a 60-day detail to oversee and review federal cybersecurity.
Hathaway, the Office of the Director for National Intelligence's senior advisor and the cyber coordination executive, will become a senior director in the National Security Council and head the Office of cybersecurity, multiple government and industry sources say.
Hathaway will replace Neill Sciarrone on the NSC. Sources say Hathaway will not be the cybersecurity czar, which President Barack Obama has said he plans to name.
For the last year, Hathaway has quietly worked on the Bush administration's cyber directive.
Under the cyber directive, Hathaway is the chairwoman of the National Cyber Study Group and the director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force.
Before coming to the government, she was a principal with Booz Allen Hamilton, where her responsibilities focused on leading two primary business units: information operations and long range strategy and policy support.
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