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The Bush administration is rewriting the document that signaled the beginning of the federal government's efforts to deal with critical-infrastructure protection and cybersecurity to take into account post-Sept. 11 homeland security requirements.

The U.S. government could create a nationwide homeland security network for information sharing for as little as US$1.25 million, according to a former director of the Critical Infrastructure Protection program at the U.S. Department of Energy.

U.S. cybersecurity policy and the protection of critical infrastructure is being hampered by a failure to communicate between the large number of federal organizations which have responsibilities in the area, as well as by ill-defined relationships between the groups, according to a new report released Monday by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO).

The pending appointment by President Bush of Microsoft Corp.'s chief security officer Howard Schmidt to the number two position at the U.S. government's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board raises an important question about the homeland security effort: Should private-sector experts be heading for the White House or frontline security agencies?

The Bush administration's plan to build a multibillion-dollar secure government intranet to protect critical federal systems from security problems associated with the Internet may be flawed, critics contend.