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Making the World Safe for the Internet
Rod Beckstrom, MBA '87, resigned last March as director of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Center, but shortly after a series of Fourth of July attacks on government agency computers in the United States and South Korea, he was invited to lend his expertise to PBS's NewsHour. The simple cyber attacks, of a type known as a distributed denial of service, were at first attributed to North Korea but may have been the work of a single hacker, Beckstrom said. "You know, this is not a sophisticated attack here. In fact, this is like a scud missile attack. This is old technology that's been around since 2004."
Beckstrom is now president of ICANN, the organization that oversees internet domain names, a post a friend called "even more impossible" than his previous job.