As George W. Bush strides toward the White House, national security experts are preparing for what could be a major change in the way the government and the private sector organize to defend against cyber-attacks. Clinton administration officials and other national . . .
As George W. Bush strides toward the White House, national security experts are preparing for what could be a major change in the way the government and the private sector organize to defend against cyber-attacks. Clinton administration officials and other national cyber-security experts say Bush plans to appoint an Internet technology "czar" by next summer to better manage the government's IT investments. That move, say experts, would probably involve reorganizing the federal critical infrastructure protection effort and possibly changing the role of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center.

Changes to the NIPC could include asking Congress for new legislation to make it easier for the national security community to get access to investigative information, making NIPC subordinate to a federal IT czar or security officer, or starting from scratch with a different type of organization, according to sources.

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