Former government officials gathered Tuesday in Washington to participate in Cyber ShockWave.

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Participants also wrangled over how far to go in regulating
the private sector, which owns the vast majority of the "critical" infrastructure that is vulnerable to a cyber attack. Stewart Baker, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security who played the "cyber coordinator" on Tuesday, said that the private sector was not prepared to defend against a cyber act of war and that the government needed to play a role.

Sponsors, most of whom made financial donations that ranged up to $150,000, included General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, PayPal, Symantec, SMobile Systems, Georgetown University and Southern Co. The Chertoff Group contributed guidance, not money. The BPC, sponsors and CNN contributed to production costs.

“Group slams Chertoff on scanner promotion”.

Former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff,/Chertoff Group, represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems.

Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former HOMELAND SECURITY secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more

full-body scanners for airports.

What he has made little mention of: is that his Chertoff Group, a security-consulting agency, included the (client) manufacturer of the body scanner machines.

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