Senators Joseph Lieberman (I–CT) and Susan Collins (R–ME) recently released a revised version of their Cybersecurity Act of 2012. The expectation is that Senate leadership will attempt to bring the bill to the floor before the August recess. Though…
As I noted on Friday, Senators Lieberman and Collins have released a Manager’s Amendment in the form of a substitute which reflects some significant changes to their original bill. You can access the full text of the amendment here. Talk in the…
It doesn’t take much to imagine the consequences of a successful cyber attack. In a future conflict, an adversary unable to match our military supremacy on the battlefield might seek to exploit our computer vulnerabilities here at home. It doesn’t…
Late last night Senators Lieberman and Collins introduced revised cybersecurity legislation. A short summary of the revised Cybersecurity Act of 2012 suggests that the major changes are 1) elimination of a mandatory regulatory system in favor of a…
high-level threats—spawned by motivated, sophisticated, and well-resourced adversaries—could increase very quickly on a very short time-scale, potentially leading to what some dub a “digital Pearl Harbor” (that is, a catastrophic event whose…
Two think tanks — one from China and one (CSIS) from the US have been conducting a dialogue on cybersecurity over the past several years. This joint release (English at the bottom) summarizes some of their discussions. From the introduction:Since…
