The original 2003 National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace is a strategy document designed to "The purpose of this document is to engage and empower Americans to secure the portions of cyberspace that they own, operate, control, or with which they interact." It is a follow-on effort to that which began in the 1990s in the Clinton Administration and everyone should remember that in 2003 the the US Government as a whole still had not come to an agreement as to what cyberspace should be defined as or include. In fact it took three years of efforts working with interagency partners to get a new DOD definition for cyberspace that would be accepted by a variety of DOD and other USG agencies. THe challenge with cyberspace is that everyone wants policy, plans, strategy and implementation at the speed of the "net" but forgets that we must develop and deploy these using the often much slower mechanisms that we have with our government's structures.

from @SecuritySources on Twitter: With all due respect, I have read both documents and they are not remotely alike. Nor are they the same number of pages. The Bush 2003 report is a preposterous document devoid of footnotes, bibliography, or individual contributors' names except for the signature of GW Bush. More a slick marketing brochure than serious strategy attempt, Madison avenue-style photos and sharp-looking but meaningless charts punch up the look and feel of the document. Replete with bland generalities and devoid of context like GAO reports recommending the same steps years prior and being ignored year after year, the report foreshadows its own lack of results like for CWIN over the years since. The Hathaway-Obama document is full of specifics, with 8 pages of bibliography and 106 footnotes, 6 pages explaining methodology.