Yet U.S. leadership in the growing field of cybersecurity has been a thorny issue. The country has seen dramatic turnover in leadership in the past few years, capped by the abrupt resignation of top cybercop Randy Vickers on July 22. Vickers had been director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness
Date: Aug 04, 2011
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Microsoft Exec VanRoekel Slated for Federal CIO Slot
Federal IT has experienced some high-end shakeups of late:Randy Vickers, director of the U.S. ComputerEmergency Response Team, resigned July 22 with no explanation. The group isdesigned to blunt cyber-threats to federal networks and the .gov domain, bothof which have been sub
"[Remember], the director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Randy Vickers, already resigned from his post, without providing an explanation. Let us provide you with one: Mr. Vickers realized that he is on the losing side of this war. A war that should never have been started in th
Randy Vickers, director of the US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), had been in the post for two years after promotion from deputy director. He will now be replaced by the current deputy director, Lee Rock, until a permanent replacement is named.