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Articles by Paul Rosenzweig
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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…
Senate Debates Cybersecurity Bill
The idea behind the legislation on the floor of the Senate this week is to harden American Internet infrastructure to attack, but there’s a lot of disagreement over how to do that without hampering the industry — and compromising Americans’ privacy.…
Cybersecurity’s Last Gasp? Reid Files for Cloture
That’s the word from the Senate — Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed for cloture to conclude the debate on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 — debate that began in earnest earlier today. In addition, he s invoked a procedural device known as “filling…
Cybersecurity Legislation: Questions That Need to Be Answered
The Senate has agreed to consider S. 3414, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, this week. Before Senators vote on the bill or related amendments, such as the Whitehouse–Kyl “compromise” that raises many of the same issues, they should insist upon answers…
Leahy Computer Fraud Abuse Amendment to the Cybersecurity Act
Senator Leahy has an proposed Cybercrime Amendment to S3414 that would, effectively, substantially enhance penalties for cyber crime and impose mandatory minimum sentences. There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of this — but the main one…
The Whitehouse-Kyl Cyber Compromise
Ah … the life of a “journalist.” I don’t think of myself that way, but now I have a couple of confidential sources (or so it seems). Attached here is the Whitehouse-Kyl compromise language for replacing Title I of the Lieberman-Collins…
Guessing what Section 706(d) of the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Bill Means
My correspondent (and friend) Gus Coldebella, wrote in the other day with a response to an earlier post of mine, in which he wondered what the meaning of section 706(d) of the Lieberman-Collins bill is. I hadn’t noticed the provision when I first…