Top cybersecurity job could be filled within month

Robert Liscouski, assistant Homeland Security secretary of infrastructure protection, on Wednesday said he hopes to find a director for the newly created cybersecurity division within the next month.

Liscouski said on June 6 he wanted to have someone in place within 30 days but "that probably was optimistic," he said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies and Information Technology Industry Council conference. He also noted that the cybersecurity office is to double in size from its current 60-member staff as reflected in the fiscal 2004 budget.

Also speaking was Dave Carey, Oracle's vice president of information assurance center, who said the government's cyber corps program is failing to find jobs for students. Several years ago, the government started the program to educate computer security specialists in exchange for their joining the government, but Carey said university professors report "they are having trouble finding jobs for their students."