Government Information Security Podcast

James Lewis, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies Imagine James Lewis as Barack Obama's teacher and it's report-card time. How well did Obama do in Lewis' class? "I'd probably give him a B, B-plus," said Lewis, senior fellow for technology and public policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the public policy group that hosted the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, in which he served as project director. Think of the commission's report as the primary textbook Obama and his aides studied in preparation for the president's first big cybersecurity test: the issuance last May of the administration's Cyberspace Policy Review, the map the White House is following as it tackles cybersecurity challenges. What prevented the president from getting an A? The commission report proposed a more higher-ranking Office of Cyberspace director than the cybersecurity coordinator Obama eventually appointed. "The issue that the people have fixated on has