PREPARED REMARKS FOR DELIVERY 
FCC CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI
WHITE HOUSE CYBERSECURITY PUBLIC-PRIVATE 
PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES ANNOUNCEMENT
MAY 30, 2012
Thank you Howard Schmidt for inviting me here today. More important, congratulations on your 
retirement and thank you for your service. Howard was the first person to serve as Cybersecurity 
Coordinator for the White House. The position itself reflects the need for a coordinated interagency effort 
to tackle this challenge.
The steps we’ve taken to increase security at both at the FCC and by the IBG are testaments to the terrific 
job Howard has done.  
Speaking of the FCC’s work, thank you to Glen Post. 
Ensuring the security and reliability of commercial networks has long been at the core of the FCC’s 
mission.  Years ago, we stood up an expert advisory panel called the Communications Security, 
Reliability and Interoperability Council – what we call CSRIC.  In fact, an earlier iteration of CSRIC 
became one of the first federal entities to develop cybersecurity best practices – back in 2001.  
Over the last year, Glen led CSRIC’s cybersecurity working groups, which have delivered practical 
solutions to specidic problems, solutions that will materially improve the security of our broadband 
networks.  
Thank you, Glen.
Howard and Glen’s work highlights a few key points about the cyberscecurity challenge.
Cyber attacks are a new kind of threat.  And tackling them requires a new kind of approach. 
First, addressing cyber threats requires the commercial communications ecosystem to engage in a way 
that’s different than other threats.  Private networks are of course a major part of Internet 
communications.  And so we need the private sector to proactively engage on this issue. 
Second, addressing cyber threats requires interagency collaboration.  Different agencies have different 
areas of expertise and responsibilities relevant to tackling Cybersecurity.  
A third key point is that in tackling cyber threats, we need to do it in a way that preserves the ingredients 
that have fueled and will fuel the Internet’s growth and success.  
That means solutions that preserve Internet freedom and the open architecture of the Internet, which have 
been essential to the Internet’s success as an engine of innovation and economic growth.  
Privacy is a similarly vital principle.  Privacy and security are complementary – both are essential to 
consumer confidence in the Internet and to adoption of broadband.  
Another key component for problem-solving in this area:  the multi-stakeholder model.  
The history of the Internet tells us that the multi-stakeholder model can produce solutions.  
This is the approach we’ve taken at the FCC – an it is also the approach the IBG is taking. 
I’m pleased that DHS and NIST have partnered in the FCC’s work.  And I’m pleased that the FCC has 
participated in the IBG process.
And the important thing is that this approach is delivering results.
In March, CSRIC’s botnet working group presented a practical, voluntary U.S. Anti-Bot Code of 
Conduct, or ABC, to reduce the threat of bots in residential broadband networks.   And ISPs representing 
nearly 90% of US Internet subscribers have committed to implementing the Code of Conduct.
The ABC provides for improved detection by ISPs of bots in their customers’ computers, and to notify 
consumers when their computers have been infected.  
And it provides for making tools available to help remediate bots.  
The ABC also includes steps to educate consumers so that they can look for signs that their computers 
have been infected.  
I am proud of this joint industry and FCC effort, which also included steps on DNS-SEC and IP Route 
Hijacking. I also recognize that it represents one facet in what must be a multi-pronged approach to botnet 
remediation, which must extend to include others in the ecosystem – and botnets are just one part of the 
broader cyber challenge.  
But with private sector engagement, interagency collaboration, and a commitment to the principles that 
have fueled the Internet’s success, I am confident we can make a real difference in increasing the security 
of the Internet and harnessing its enormous opportunities. 
Thank you.