The Bush administration is wrapping up details on a new governmentwide structure to lead national cybersecurity efforts, again rejecting the idea of having a security czar. White House officials have been working for months on ways to reorganize the government's initiatives for protecting the information systems that support the nation's critical infrastructure. The critical infrastructure protection (CIP) effort started under President Clinton in 1998, when he signed Presidential Decision Directive 63.
Many have suggested establishing a cybersecurity czar with a role similar to John Koskinen's position leading the federal government's Year 2000 efforts. But Clinton, concerned that agencies would pass responsibility to a czar, in PDD 63 created a national coordinator at the National Security Council to oversee agency CIP efforts.
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