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White House Cyber Czar: ‘There Is No Cyberwar’
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Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing.
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“There is no cyberwar,†Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.
“I think that is a terrible metaphor and I think that is a terrible concept,†Schmidt said. “There are no winners in that environment.â€
Instead, Schmidt said the government needs to focus its cybersecurity efforts to fight online crime and espionage.
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