Seven months after President Barack Obama announced he would be appointing a federal chief information security officer to act as the point person on agency cybersecurity, the administration named Gregory Touhill as the first to occupy the post.
Prior to DHS, Touhill served as a commander and CIO in the Air Force, where he rose to the rank of brigadier general. Before retiring from the military in 2013, he was serving as the CIO and director of C4 systems for U.S. Transportation Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Touhill will help set cybersecurity for the entire federal government, working under Federal CIO Tony Scott in the Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In his new role as federal CISO, Greg will leverage his considerable experience in managing a range of complex and diverse technical solutions at scale with his strong knowledge of both civilian and military best practices, capabilities, and human capital training, development and retention strategies,” Scott said in a Sept. 8 blog post<\/a>co-authored with Michael Daniel, White House cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n