The Pentagon yesterday said that Daniel Prieto, a former vice president of IBM’s [IBM] Global Business Services, Public Sector, has been appointed as director of Cybersecurity and Technology within the Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer.
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| Daniel Prieto. Photo: CSIS |
Prieto has also served as a non-resident expert for the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies and led IBM’s Global Leadership Initiative, which provides corporate development and thought leadership in homeland security, cyber security, healthcare and smarter government for the corporation’s Public Sector Division.
Prieto is a former professional staff member on the Democratic Staff of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security and has had fellowship appointments at Harvard, Stanford and George Washington Univ. He also was an executive with Time Warner [TWX] and an investment banker with J.P. Morgan.
In 2010 Prieto authored a white paper for IBM entitled Meeting the Cybersecurity Challenge: Empowering Stakeholders and Ensuring Coordination, which among other things recommended the creation of a national equivalent to the Centers for Disease Control to monitor, report, coordinate and collaborate on cyber threats and trends domestically and internationally. His report also recommended the creation of a Cyber Federal Emergency Management Agency to respond to cyber events of national significance.