Comments on: Senate bill sets guidelines for cybersecurity center

The Senate's DHS authorization bill lays out guidelines for the National Cyber Security Center and calls for its director to report directly to the president.

[n3td3v]

$30 million to protect themselves against a false pretence? cyber security doesn't need that much investment, the folks ramping up the idea of a real life die hard 4 are living in cloud cuckoo land. there are no cyber terrorists out there, there is no threat to national security. people like marcus sachs want you to believe there is, so he can get hold of power and money in washington, but its all fantasy make-believe threats that aren't actually there in reality.

[ITSecurityDude]

Actually, you are wrong, there are cyber terrorists. It has been in the news about criminals hackers who tried to extort money from people to return control of their computers and it was also in the news about an overseas company that was hacked into. If you want to wait until the US suffers a devastating cyber attack before you believe, then there is no hope for you. I have been an IT security professional for over 10 years and I have read articles and seen reports that are indicators of a the possibility of more and more devastating cyber attacks.

[Pete Bardo]

Sure, cyber terrorism is a threat. What I'm not understanding is how a technologically inept President is of any value in this loop. It makes the director a political appointee, which does little to guarantee a qualified, experienced director of the new agency. The director reporting directly to the President on any matters splinters the DHS, whose stated purpose was to bring all national security concerns under one department. The White House can't even secure its own email--and we're going put all our trust there?

I know what to do--place armed guards at strategic points throughout that series of tubes that makes up the internet...