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Obama searching for potential Cyber Czars

There are a few names running for the post of being the Cyber Czar for U.S. President elect Barack Obama. The cyber Czar will be responsible to form an IT security panel and he will have to coordinate computer security and federal departments and agencies.

Some of the names for Cyber Czar is CEO of Symantec, John Thompson, former chief counter-terrorism adviser with NSC, Richard Clarke, president of the ISF , Howard Schmidt and last is head of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, Scott Charney.