by Paul Rosenzweig | Oct 1, 2012 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Sep 24, 2012 | Cybersecurity
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,…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Sep 18, 2012 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Sep 16, 2012 | Cybersecurity, National Security
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Sep 13, 2012 | Cybersecurity, National Security
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Sep 12, 2012 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security
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…
