Although the creation of a national information security office will mean more regulation, oversight, and filtering of Internet traffic, Howard said, "There is a palpable feeling of excitement about national cyber defense."

And it's all based on ignorance of the nature of security. The third natural law of security states: All Security is Individual and Relative. The act of having a national information security office guarantees several things:

1) Security measures will be uniform across diverse systems so that no individual system will have security optimized to its own particular vulnerabilities.
2) Hacking any one system will reveal the vulnerabilities of all the rest.
3) Bureaucracies move slowly so solutions will become available just as the vulnerability-exploitation process has run it's course.
4) All systems that are covered by the NIS office will always be vulnerable to personal and political corruption in that office.

What a bargain!