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Articles by Paul Rosenzweig
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Senator Lieberman on the Need for Cybersecurity Legislation
Senator Lieberman has an op ed in the Washington Post today calling for a move forward on his cybersecurity legislation. Meanwhile, Senator Collins (one of the cosponsors of Lieberman’s bill) has called on the President NOT to issue an executive…
Why the Secretary of DHS Doesn’t Use E-Mail
Last Friday, in an interview, Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted that she never, ever used email. The Internet cognoscenti are shocked. They think it either means that she knows that the Internet is not secure or that she is a luddite who isn’t…
National Security Experts Go Rogue For ‘Drone Smackdown’
Alice Beauheim, her father and Bill Love fly their homemade machines at the Drone Smackdown in Manassas, Va., on Sunday. Objections by the Federal Aviation Administration forced organizers to hold the tongue-in-cheek contest outside of Washington,…
Senator Rockefeller Says “Voluntary Cybersecurity Regulations Really Mandatory”
OK. I admit it. I made up the quote that is the title of this post. Senator Rockefeller never said any such thing. But he did almost as much by demonstrating (probably by accident) why industry fear the specter of “voluntary regulations.”When last we…
Cybersecurity Executive Order — They Really Mean It
The executive branch national security team – including civilian, military and intelligence professionals – agrees that inadequate cybersecurity within our critical infrastructure poses a grave threat to the United States and requires new and updated…
McCain, Hutchinson and Chambliss to POTUS: No Cyber Executive Order Please
Senators McCain, Hutchinson and Chambliss have an op ed in the Wall St. Journal today, urging President Obama to refrain from issuing a cyber Executive Order. Here’s a taste (I fear the full text is behind a registration wall — this is about as much…
Congress Should Not Enable Executive Orders on Cybersecurity
The discussion over improving U.S. cybersecurity has moved from a debate over different pieces of legislation to speculation and expectation that President Obama will issue an executive order. Congress repeatedly declined to adopt a regulatory…
Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order
Details available from Skating on Stilts — HT: Stewart Baker. I’ll have some analysis and thoughts later this weekend.
Public-Private Partnerships for Cybersecurity Information Sharing
So in the cyber domain we often talk about the need for a “Public-Private-Partnership” or a PPP to share information about cyber threats and vulnerabilities. These PPPs are sometimes criticized as ineffective and convoluted in nature.Well, now we…
Cybersecurity Act of 2012 — Cloture Vote Fails
And so it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper. Despite letters from the Director of NSA, General Alexander and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey the motion to close the debate on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 failed on a…