Mega Cyber Brief Coming Soon

It's hard to figure out who's on first in the cybersecurity game, as the White House slogs its way through a 60-day cybersecurity review, the National Security Agency stands up a Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare and the Homeland Security Department jockeys to run the cyber mission outside of the Defense Department.

But all this cyber stuff may become at the least less murky by June 2, the last day Defense, DHS, the Justice Department, and the Office of Management and Budget are supposed to provide the Senate Appropriations Committee with a joint briefing on their security responsibilities, according to the report on the 2009 war supplemental. (See page 4.)

The Senate wants all of the above to detail the total 2010 cybersecurity funding and how distinct users of cyberspace will use it, including federal, state and local governments, the private sector, academia and the public.

There is no date and time for the briefing, but it looks so epic everyone involved should probably pack a lunch (maybe dinner too).