The Regulatory Provisions of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012
When I was younger, I didn’t like to eat my peas. So I always put them off for last, but eventually, I’d realize that it was something I had to do and … just do it.I feel a little like that in writing about Title I of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 –…
The Great Cybersecurity Carve Out?
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…
House Cyber Legislation Amendments
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.…
Promoting Cybersecurity Through the PRECISE Act
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…
Lessons of WikiLeaks: The U.S. Needs a Counterinsurgency Strategy for Cyberspace
Abstract: Over the past 10 years, the United States has devoted significant resources to the development of a counterinsurgency strategy for fighting non-traditional enemies on the ground. As the global scandal caused by the unauthorized publication…