U.S. President Barack Obama is to underscore the importance of digital security Friday by outlining his strategy to protect the nation's public and private computer networks from attack.
Mr. Obama is expected to detail broad goals for dealing with cyber threats in a White House speech Friday at 1455 UTC.
A major part of the strategy will be creating the post of "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will coordinate cybersecurity efforts with both the National Security Council and National Economic Council. The president is not expected to name the new cyber czar on Friday.
Mr. Obama ordered a comprehensive 60-day review of the government's cybersecurity efforts shortly after taking office in January.
The New York Times says the U.S. Defense Department plans to create a new military command for cyberspace that will conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
A Pentagon spokesman recently said the number of attempted cyber attacks has "more than doubled recently."
A report last month in The Wall Street Journal said spies, believed to be from China, used the Internet to break into a computer system containing information on the $300 billion U.S. Joint Strike Fighter project - one of America's most expensive weapons programs.
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