“I’m really happy he didn’t use the word czar,” said Jeff Moss, director of the Black Hat information-security conferences. “We’re a democracy and we don’t have dictators. How could we have one person sweeping away all these problems?”

The White House also published its , completed by the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council.

The 76-page report says the government should review laws and policies regarding cybersecurity, better coordinate with the private sector and invest in research efforts. The input came from many sources, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is fairly bland -- a far cry from the controversy many expected to see in the arguments around the question of how far the government should control private networks or the Internet.

Several ideas that gained momentum during the Bush Administration were re-affirmed, one of them being Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12), which set . 

But the report also indicated that future efforts in identity management would focus on reports from the National Science and Technology Council’s and identity management, which issued its “Identity Management Task report” in 2008.