A panel comprising leading government and industry experts has recently issued a report urging president-elect Barack Obama to create a White House office in charge of protecting cyberspace from hackers, thieves and foreign agents.

Moreover, the panel recommended that the new office should also take up the responsibilities of coordinating security efforts concerning United States military, intelligence and civilian agencies.

The report was made public Monday on Capitol Hill and further suggested the nation’s next administration to draw up new laws in order to render investigations into cyberspace breaches to unfurl more rapidly so that punishing the ones responsible to also come quicker.

The experts put forward the concept of online „data warrants,” which would replace traditional search warrants that regarding cybersecurity are usually to no avail.

Since five members of the panel are also serving Barack Obama’s transition team, it is expected that the president-elect would be open to their ideas and recommendations.

These aforementioned members include former White House official Paul Kurtz, who is Obama’s adviser on matters of national security, along with the president-elect’s technology advisers Dan Chenok and Bruce McConnell.

The commision was assembled by Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, a public policy research institution that focuses on analysis and policy impact, while the recommendation for enhancing cybersecurity comes after several computer hackings at the Pentagon, White House, State Department and Commerce Department during recent years, most of which were traced back to China and Russia.