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Comprehensive Cyber Legislation Approved
Written by Camille Tuutti Latest News, National Security Jun 25, 2010
20090311_lieberman_33The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday unanimously approved a major cybersecurity legislation that would structure how the federal government protects public and private sector cyber networks.
Crafted by Ranking Member Susan Collins and Sens. Joe Lieberman and Tom Carper, the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 calls for the creation of a White House Office of Cyberspace Policy to spearhead federal and private sector efforts to secure critical cyber networks and assets. The office would be headed by a Senate-confirmed director who would be accountable to the public. The bill also creates a new center within the Department of Homeland Security to adopt cybersecurity policies related to federal and private sector networks.
“Catastrophic cyber attack is no longer a fantasy or a fiction,” Lieberman said. “It is a clear and present danger. This legislation would fundamentally reshape the way the federal government defends America’s cyberspace. It takes a comprehensive, risk-based, and collaborative approach to addressing critical vulnerabilities in our own defenses. We believe our bill would go a long way toward improving the security of our government and private critical infrastructure, and therefore the security of the American people.”
Collins said it is important to realize the threat of a catastrophic cyber attack is not theoretical, but very real. The sergeant at arms has reported the computer systems in executive branch agencies and in congressional agencies are now under cyber attack an average of 1.8 billion times a month, a number she called “extraordinary.”
“Cyber crime costs our national economy billions of dollars annually,” Collins said. “And intelligence officials have warned over and over again that these attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated. The fact is: We cannot fail to act. We can’t wait until there is a cyber 9/11 and say, ‘Why didn’t we act? We knew this was coming.’ The attacks are ongoing even as we meet. So we must act, and I believe we have drafted a responsible bill to do so.”
Although society has reaped enormous benefits from the use of the Internet, adversaries have identified cyberspace as an ideal 21st-century battlefield, Carper said.
“We have to take steps now to modernize our approach to protecting this valuable, but vulnerable, resource,” he said. “This legislation is a vital tool that America needs to better protect cyber space. It encourages the government and the private sector to work together to address this growing threat and provides the tools and resources for America to be successful in this critical effort.”
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4 Responses for “Comprehensive Cyber Legislation Approved”
1.
Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers | Sovereign Independent says:
June 25, 2010 at 1:10 pm
[...] Source: Executive Gov. [...]
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legend says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:01 pm
So, say the government has a plan to actually those FAMA camps with “unfriendlies” (those suspected of a crime but not actually charged, like Guantanamo Bay hostages), all he would have to do to suffocate the story from US population dissemination is declare an emergency, shut down the internet for an emergency (a NEW 911), go round up the new US detainees, invent a special commission to deal with this new class of “deeply dangerous” people, suspend Habeus Corpus, and suspend constitutional government. After all, don’t the Freemasons like Bush, Cheney, Poindexter, and Obama have their OWN TRIAL SYSTEM in their lodges, outside US perview? Yep, they do. Might our NEW courts and government look like a Masonic lodge in structure, along with titles like Grand Potentate replacing the untidy “state governors” and such?
You had better believe they want our government of constitutional laws GONE. Just look at what they decided just yesterday….with Bush appointee Roberts declaring even free speech for peaceful means is illegal if the government has declared you an unfriendly. That’s why Obama continued to piggyback the Patriot Act, FISA, and all the other utter crap Bush put in place. They want freedom gone, to be replaced by what freemasons like, and it is not free except to their lawbreakers, who all get a pass. That’s how freemasons get tickets fixed for theirs.
3.
Committee approves legislation that would allow President to turn off Internet | America 20XY says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:15 pm
[...] Executive Government [...]
4.
Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers says:
June 26, 2010 at 5:16 pm
[...] Comprehensive Cyber Legislation Approved | Executive Gov. Share and [...]
as our freedoms fly out the windows brought to us by our current 2 party system we need to vote every single one of them out and elect non professional politicians that are not groomed up by party officials offering them training from the ground up into their organizations.
Comprehensive Cyber Legislation Approved
Written by Camille Tuutti Latest News, National Security Jun 25, 2010
20090311_lieberman_33The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday unanimously approved a major cybersecurity legislation that would structure how the federal government protects public and private sector cyber networks.
Crafted by Ranking Member Susan Collins and Sens. Joe Lieberman and Tom Carper, the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 calls for the creation of a White House Office of Cyberspace Policy to spearhead federal and private sector efforts to secure critical cyber networks and assets. The office would be headed by a Senate-confirmed director who would be accountable to the public. The bill also creates a new center within the Department of Homeland Security to adopt cybersecurity policies related to federal and private sector networks.
“Catastrophic cyber attack is no longer a fantasy or a fiction,” Lieberman said. “It is a clear and present danger. This legislation would fundamentally reshape the way the federal government defends America’s cyberspace. It takes a comprehensive, risk-based, and collaborative approach to addressing critical vulnerabilities in our own defenses. We believe our bill would go a long way toward improving the security of our government and private critical infrastructure, and therefore the security of the American people.”
Collins said it is important to realize the threat of a catastrophic cyber attack is not theoretical, but very real. The sergeant at arms has reported the computer systems in executive branch agencies and in congressional agencies are now under cyber attack an average of 1.8 billion times a month, a number she called “extraordinary.”
“Cyber crime costs our national economy billions of dollars annually,” Collins said. “And intelligence officials have warned over and over again that these attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated. The fact is: We cannot fail to act. We can’t wait until there is a cyber 9/11 and say, ‘Why didn’t we act? We knew this was coming.’ The attacks are ongoing even as we meet. So we must act, and I believe we have drafted a responsible bill to do so.”
Although society has reaped enormous benefits from the use of the Internet, adversaries have identified cyberspace as an ideal 21st-century battlefield, Carper said.
“We have to take steps now to modernize our approach to protecting this valuable, but vulnerable, resource,” he said. “This legislation is a vital tool that America needs to better protect cyber space. It encourages the government and the private sector to work together to address this growing threat and provides the tools and resources for America to be successful in this critical effort.”
* Share/Bookmark
Related posts:
1. DHS Proposes Cybersecurity Bill to Grant President Emergency Powers The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee released a...
2. Reitinger Testifies on Cyber Bill As the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of...
3. Lynn Addresses Importance of U.S. Cyber Command Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III addressed the...
4. Former DHS Assistant Secretary Blames Congress for Lack of Cyber Security Former assistant secretary for cyber security with the Department of...
5. US-CERT Falls Short on Cyber Preparedness, Says Inspector General The federal agency in charge of protecting the U.S. Internet...
4 Responses for “Comprehensive Cyber Legislation Approved”
1.
Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers | Sovereign Independent says:
June 25, 2010 at 1:10 pm
[...] Source: Executive Gov. [...]
2.
legend says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:01 pm
So, say the government has a plan to actually those FAMA camps with “unfriendlies” (those suspected of a crime but not actually charged, like Guantanamo Bay hostages), all he would have to do to suffocate the story from US population dissemination is declare an emergency, shut down the internet for an emergency (a NEW 911), go round up the new US detainees, invent a special commission to deal with this new class of “deeply dangerous” people, suspend Habeus Corpus, and suspend constitutional government. After all, don’t the Freemasons like Bush, Cheney, Poindexter, and Obama have their OWN TRIAL SYSTEM in their lodges, outside US perview? Yep, they do. Might our NEW courts and government look like a Masonic lodge in structure, along with titles like Grand Potentate replacing the untidy “state governors” and such?
You had better believe they want our government of constitutional laws GONE. Just look at what they decided just yesterday….with Bush appointee Roberts declaring even free speech for peaceful means is illegal if the government has declared you an unfriendly. That’s why Obama continued to piggyback the Patriot Act, FISA, and all the other utter crap Bush put in place. They want freedom gone, to be replaced by what freemasons like, and it is not free except to their lawbreakers, who all get a pass. That’s how freemasons get tickets fixed for theirs.
3.
Committee approves legislation that would allow President to turn off Internet | America 20XY says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:15 pm
[...] Executive Government [...]
4.
Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers says:
June 26, 2010 at 5:16 pm
[...] Comprehensive Cyber Legislation Approved | Executive Gov. Share and [...]
as our freedoms fly out the windows brought to us by our current 2 party system we need to vote every single one of them out and elect non professional politicians that are not groomed up by party officials offering them training from the ground up into their organizations.