In a report released this fall by the White House on the topic of National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the President's cyber-security advisors put forth their case for weaving security concerns throughout public and private Internet usage. When President Bush's special advisor for cyberspace security, Richard Clarke, said a year ago that he was interested in a public-private partnership to tackle cyber-security issues, listeners could have been forgiven for being skeptical about the government's commitment to carrying through on its end. But by now, with the federal government clearly approaching information security as a critical issue, private enterprises may have a lot to do yet on their end.
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