by Paul Rosenzweig | Feb 15, 2012 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Feb 13, 2012 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Feb 12, 2012 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Feb 12, 2012 | Cybersecurity, National Security
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Feb 8, 2012 | Cybersecurity, National Security
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.…