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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
