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on Internet security by Byron Acohido

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Beckstrom Q&A: Cybersecurity official explains how he was hamstrung by NSA
March 9, 2009

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rodabeckstrom_crop_edited1The sudden resignation  of Rod A. Beckstrom, the Department of Homeland Security’s senior  official tasked with unifying the federal government’s cybersecurity intiatives, bodes ill for a new age of transparency and collaborative problem-solving in government. Beckstrom was unable to maneuver around, much less partner with, the powerful National Security Agency (NSA).

In this stunningly frank March 5th resignation letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, Beckstrom, Director of the National …More

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