President Barack Obama has ordered a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity

President Barack Obama has ordered a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity to examine how well the U.S. federal agencies use technology to protect data, thwarting spies and malicious hackers.

In President Obama’s effort to scrutinize all U.S. government plans, program and activities relating to the management of massive amounts of data, he will call upon Melissa Hathaway, a former Bush administration aide to head the program as Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace in both the National Security and Homeland Security Councils – a sort of “cyber czar”. Hathaway, an expert on cybersecurity, led former President Bush’s $6 billion-a-year Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Her cybersecurity review will include an inventory of what was already being done and recommendations on how processes, policies and procedures can be improved.

No one knows if this Hathaway’s cyber czar position will become permanent after the 60-day review is completed.