On Wednesday the House Homeland Security Committee marked up the Lungren cybersecurity proposal. The details are reported here and are difficult to piece together. In so far as one can tell, the Chairman’s amendment softened the directive nature of…
Over the past several weeks, I’ve written a number of blogs about the substance of the cybersecurity bills pending before Congress. As the House moves to consider cyber legislation next week and as the Senate prepares to begin its debate, I wanted to…
The House Homeland Security Committee has now released its own updated version of a cybersecurity bill. The text is (Lungren Substitute April 2012). This bill stands in pretty significant contrast to the Rogers-Ruppersberger bill which (in it The…
OK. I made up the quote, but it is a fair assessment of Professor Eugene Spafford’s message to Congress. On Wednesday April 11, Spaf (as he is widely known) gave the invited Frank Howard Distinguished Lecture at the George Washington University…
In earlier posts I’ve written generally about the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill and the McCain bill. Today I want to continue drilling down in comparing the two bills on a more detailed basis by examining…
Senator Johnson has an op-ed in today’s Hill on the pending Senate cybersecurity legislation. Here is a small taste of what he says:”[P]roposals in Congress, advocated by the White House, would give the federal government, namely the Department of…
