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Hunker Director's Colloquium discusses nation's cyber security policy

Fixing the nation's cyber security policy is the focus of the next scheduled Director's Colloquium at 1:10 this afternoon in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3.

Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jeffrey Hunker will give the talk, which is open to Laboratory badgeholders. The talk will be broadcast live on Labnet Channel 9 and on desktop computers using Real Media and IPTV technology.

In "Our Nation's Cyber Security Policy is Broken and Needs to be Fixed," Hunker will highlight the national strategy for critical infrastructure security, focusing on the national plan for information system protection. He will discuss the causes for the limited progress towards securing cyberspace, while outlining an agenda for change. His presentation is based on a forthcoming book regarding failed U.S. cyber security policies.

Hunker was senior director for critical infrastructure protection at the National Security Council in the Clinton administration. He was responsible for developing the first comprehensive national strategies for cyber protection.

Hunker is professor of technology policy at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science as well as professor of technology and public policy at Carnegie Mellon's Public Policy and Management School.

For more information about the Director's Colloquium program, which is coordinated by the Science and Technology Base (STB) Programs Office, go to http://stb.lanl.gov:8080/wosaserver/web?pg=/program/colloquium/index.xml online.

--Dennielle Matsumoto

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