Cybersecurity: Can States Keep a Secret?   The importance of
safeguarding information held on computers and the Internet has
increased significantly in recent years. Governments hold
enormous amounts of personal, sensitive information from health
records to rap sheets, from income taxes paid to welfare
benefits received. Can states keep a secret?  The issue made the
news recently when nine individuals were indicted for snooping
into President Obama's student loan information.  Both
corporations and government have responded to the challenge of
safeguarding sensitive information by creating a new role: chief
information security officers, or CISOs. The role of these
officers is still emerging. Do they safeguard best by using law
enforcement techniques and technological tools? Or are they more
effective if they serve as educators and try to influence the
behaviors of technology users?  A recent report by Marilu
Goodyear, Holly T. Goerdel, Shannon Portillo and Linda Williams
identifies the strategies used by suc