President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

Jack Goldsmith
Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 8:46 PM

Today President Obama announced a Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity that is “charged with making recommendations to the nation for actions that can be taken over the next decade to strengthen cybersecurity in both the public and private sector.” The Commission is specifically tasked with “making detailed recommendations on actions that can be taken over the next decade to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections throughout the private sector and at

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Today President Obama announced a Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity that is “charged with making recommendations to the nation for actions that can be taken over the next decade to strengthen cybersecurity in both the public and private sector.” The Commission is specifically tasked with “making detailed recommendations on actions that can be taken over the next decade to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections throughout the private sector and at all levels of Government, to protect privacy, to ensure public safety and economic and national security, and to empower Americans to take better control of their digital security.” The Commission has twelve distinguished members, including our own Herb Lin.


Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.

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