According to the Washington Post, President Obama plans to expand the membership and increase the authority of the National Security Council (NSC). New NSC directorates will set strategy over a wide number of issues including cybersecurity.
The Washington Post article outlines several of the timelines and expected changes:
"New NSC directorates will deal with such department-spanning 21st-century issues as cybersecurity, energy, climate change, nation-building and infrastructure. Many of the functions of the Homeland Security Council, established as a separate White House entity by President Bush after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, may be subsumed into the expanded NSC, although it is still undetermined whether elements of the HSC will remain as a separate body within the White House."
The article oulines many of the positions articulated by James L. Jones, a retired Marine general who will run the NSC under President Obama, during an interview with the Post. "Directorates inside Jones's NSC staff will oversee implementation of decisions."
This article provides another fascinating piece of the plans for cybersecurity over the next several years. A few weeks back, the President announced that a new cyber advisor would report straight to him. As of the time I am writing this blog, no one has been appointed to this new positon, but websites are full of speculation regarding names.
One thing is clear. Cybersecurity is becoming a central issue for the new administration.
