Hathaway didn't delve into the meat of recommendations she has prepared for Obama, but she did share these bullet points [taken from the text of her speech]:

She concluded that everyone has a role to play in improving cybersecurity, most notably the IT security practitioners seated before her in the Moscone Center keynote hall.

The government's role in cybersecurity -- specifically the amount of control it should have over how the private sector manages it -- has been one of the top-of-mind issues for conference attendees this week. The issue has increasingly consumed the information security community in recent weeks because of legislation filed in the U.S. Senate that would, among other things, give the government more power to enforce security in the private sector. [See ]

In the article cited above, most IT security professionals expressed doubts about giving the government more control, given its own troubles in tackling the problem.

Rich Mogull, a former Gartner analyst and founder of security consultancy Securosis, said a deeper government reach into the private sector may make sense under certain circumstances, but not in the broader sense.