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The importance of cybersecurity and the need for sound cybersecurity policies were highlighted at the confirmation hearing for former Republican Senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel, to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense. Senator Hagel said that cybersecurity “represents as big a threat to security in this country as any one specific threat” and encouraged lawmakers to pass cybersecurity legislation. [...]
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Inside the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Congress Center, sheltered from the snow and ice of Davos, this year’s theme of “Resilient Dynamism” spurred some provocative conversations at Davos about cybersecurity. We are witnessing a technology upheaval of our society and economy. Though cybersecurity is now a “mainstream” topic with the Davos crowd, cybersecurity policy is still in its nascent stage. [...]
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At his confirmation hearing today to become the next U.S. Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., was asked about cybersecurity. Here’s what he had to say in his question-and-answer round with Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Senator Durbin: I think you may have attended the briefing, the classified briefing for members of the Senate, Democrats [...]
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Sparky Anderson, who managed World Series-winning teams in Cincinnati and Detroit, once remarked, “We’re getting close to opening day. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing.” January 3rd, 2013 marked American policymaking’s opening day: the start of the 113th Congress. We in the tech industry see the start of a new season of policymaking as a good thing because ours is an industry rooted [...]
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Time of death: 6:11p.m. After a second failed cloture vote on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared, “Cybersecurity is dead for this Congress.” Despite interest from both sides of the aisle to address the issue of cybersecurity, there simply was not enough bipartisan support for the Cybersecurity [...]
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Senators continue to debate and vote on amendments to S. 3414, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. ITI’s Robert Hoffman walks you through the key principles that the tech sector has for cybersecurity, and the areas where the legislation could be more effective. Hoffman stresses that any legislation needs to create a security structure that will be fast, flexible, and forward thinking to keep up with the [...]
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ITI and our member companies take cybersecurity very seriously. We have to; protecting people when they are online underpins a major portion of our innovation economy. Consider the everyday applications that we all rely on -- online banking, social networking, picture sharing, health care systems access, music and movies, real-time weather and traffic reports. Cybersecurity helps to protect the [...]
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Will the Senate pass a cybersecurity bill? That’s the major question looming this week as the time for congressional action in 2012 shrinks. While the House of Representatives passed a package of cybersecurity bills with bipartisan support, Senators seem to be struggling to find their own bipartisan agreement that can win the support of at least 60 members – the key threshold to pass just about any [...]
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Last night, the White House issued its Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) on H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, commonly called CISPA. Unfortunately, the SAP does not reflect the changes that the bill’s authors – Republican Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan and Democratic Representative Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland – had agreed to include after long and productive [...]
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There is a last-minute effort to derail the bipartisan Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by playing on people’s fears and stretching facts to the point of breaking. The latest example comes from a blast email from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urging people to call House members in opposition to the bipartisan cybersecurity bill. This is from EFF’s suggested script [...]
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