State Department Cyber Issues Coordinator Chris Painter: Cybersecurity is a new foreign policy priority. Working with other countries to build discussion and reach agreements on common Internet practices is another goal. Painter served as acting White House cybersecurity coordinator in the months preceding the naming of Howard Schmidt to that post. “I’ve been involved with cybersecurity for 20 years” – he prosecuted hacker Kevin Mitnick in the mid-1990s – “and I have never seen in my career so many people coming together with such a common purpose,” Painter says.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/cybersecurity-worldwide-policy-a-3739