Richard Clarke, senior director of the National Security Council, this morning at Gartner's Spring Symposium/ITxpo outlined the gist of a White House statement calling for the government to prepare a new national plan to protect cyberspace. This plan, he said, will be written by the government and the private sector, with input from the power, banking, and transportation industries and from users of the Internet. The goal is to create a plan based on a consensus of what cyber security should be.
"We are moving into a new national infrastructure -- one that is converging from ATM and frame relay to IP," said Clarke, in his opening remarks on Gartner's Masterminds panel on cyber crime, corporate privacy and the national interest.
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