The Senate has agreed to consider S. 3414, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, this week. Before Senators vote on the bill or related amendments, such as the Whitehouse–Kyl “compromise” that raises many of the same issues, they should insist upon answers…
My correspondent (and friend) Gus Coldebella, wrote in the other day with a response to an earlier post of mine, in which he wondered what the meaning of section 706(d) of the Lieberman-Collins bill is. I hadn’t noticed the provision when I first…
Gus Coldebella, former Deputy General Counsel (and Acting General Counsel) for DHS and now a partner at Goodwin Proctor write in with this addition comment on the liability provisions of the Lieberman-Collins bill [I added the hyperlink to my prior…
Here is the Administration’s Statement of Administration Policy on the Lieberman-Collins bill. On the regulatory provisions and the information-sharing liability provisions they are drawing a line in the sand:The revised bill contains…
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…
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…
