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Articles by Paul Rosenzweig
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The Regulatory Provisions of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012
When I was younger, I didn’t like to eat my peas. So I always put them off for last, but eventually, I’d realize that it was something I had to do and … just do it.I feel a little like that in writing about Title I of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 –…
Republican Challenges to the Cybersecurity Bill
Late last week, seven senior Republican Senators sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, complaining that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was being rushed through and that they had not been adequately consulted on the contents of the bill.…
The Cybersecurity Carve Out — Revisited
Two days ago, I wrote about the “great cybersecurity carve out.” My point was that the definition of critical cyber infrastructure in the newly-introduced Senate cybersecurity bill seemed to have an important exclusion. As a reminder, the language…
Information Sharing and the Cybersecurity Act of 2012
Well, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is now available for Senate consideration. A link to the text of the bill can be found here for download. Hearings will be held this Thursday. Weighing in at 205 pages, the bill’s text will require quite a bit of…
Washington Post Editorial on Cybersecurity Legislation
The lead editorial in the Washington Post today, just adds to the political salience of the cybersecurity issue. Calling the existing status quo “unacceptable” the Post lends it support to the Senate bill (now dubbed…
The Great Cybersecurity Carve Out?
As Leroy Jetson’s dog Astro used to say: “ruh roh.”The most critical (no pun intended) portion of the soon-to-be-introduced (and newly renamed) Lieberman-Collins-Rockefeller-Carper (“LCRC”) cybersecurity bill (hearings scheduled for Thursday – bill…
House Cyber Legislation Amendments
One of the dangers of blogging about current events is that changing events tend to overtake what you have written. Earlier this week, I wrote about the two House bills currently moving through that chamber.Amendments have been made to both bills.…
Promoting Cybersecurity Through the PRECISE Act
Earlier this year, The Heritage Foundation noted the positive features of the Rogers–Ruppersberger bill (H.R. 3523), a solid cybersecurity bill that was the product of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and passed out of that committee on a…
Cybersecurity Legislation in the House of Representatives
In two earlier posts I’ve focused on some of the particular issues that may arise during the Senate’s consideration of a comprehensive cybersecurity bill. The focus on the Senate is apt, inasmuch as Senator Reid has promised to bring a bill to the…
The Internet “Kill Switch” Debate
Nobody in Washington ever got rich making predictions about the political process. Nevertheless, I will go out on a limb and predict that at some point in the coming debate over the Senate cybersecurity bill, you will hear or read the words “Internet…