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…
The Rogers-Ruppersberger bill will come to the floor the week of April 23. It’s information sharing provisions are likely to be the crux of the debate on the House side. Today, the Manager’s filed a draft amendment in the nature of a substitute. Major...
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…
Introduction Chairman Leahy, Ranking Member Grassley, and Members of the Committee, I thank you for your invitation to appear today and present testimony on the question of cybersecurity information sharing and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).…
The Senate has introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. A floor vote is expected in March or April. The Cybersecurity Act contains laudable elements—enhancement of and protection for private-sector information sharing are crucial. The act’s new…
In an earlier post about the information sharing provisions of the cybersecurity bill pending in the Senate I highlighted the issue of liability protection and the preemption of State law, musing that those provisions might prove controversial with…
