New Cybersecurity Chief Targets Bureaucracy
CIO, November, 2006 by Allan Holmes, with Sarah D. Scalet
Greg Garcia, the recently named head of cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is an impatient man when it comes to bureaucracy. That may be a good thing. Those who know Garcia, a former IT security policy expert at the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group in Washington, D.C., say he has little patience for the slow Washington process of nonstop meetings to discuss process, without making hard decisions.
"Greg has a low tolerance for chatting with no action," says Harris Miller, a former Information Technology Association of America president. "He's very much a person who believes in setting agendas and moving forward on them." This may be just what DHS needs. In September, DHS released the nonclassified report on a tabletop...
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