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Story: Security industry doesn't want a cybersecurity tsar

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Posted by: Arthur B. (Tuesday 29 November 2005, 10:58 PM)

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Security requires total solutions since security can only be as strong as the weakest link and there's much ground that needs to be covered. Given that in the tradional government model many departments tend to get in the way of each other without knowing what the other is or isn't doing one independant and overspanning all department that keeps overall view and identifies holes missed should be welcomed.

On the other hand. A 'see all, be all' department is best left to a signalling function only in order to avoid 'one size fits all' disasters.

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