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The importance of cybersecurity and the need for sound cybersecurity policies were highlighted at the confirmation hearing for former Republican Senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel, to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense. Senator Hagel said that cybersecurity “represents as big a threat to security in this country as any one specific threat” and encouraged lawmakers to pass cybersecurity legislation. [...]
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Inside the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Congress Center, sheltered from the snow and ice of Davos, this year’s theme of “Resilient Dynamism” spurred some provocative conversations at Davos about cybersecurity. We are witnessing a technology upheaval of our society and economy. Though cybersecurity is now a “mainstream” topic with the Davos crowd, cybersecurity policy is still in its nascent stage. [...]
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Time of death: 6:11p.m. After a second failed cloture vote on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared, “Cybersecurity is dead for this Congress.” Despite interest from both sides of the aisle to address the issue of cybersecurity, there simply was not enough bipartisan support for the Cybersecurity [...]
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ITI and our member companies take cybersecurity very seriously. We have to; protecting people when they are online underpins a major portion of our innovation economy. Consider the everyday applications that we all rely on -- online banking, social networking, picture sharing, health care systems access, music and movies, real-time weather and traffic reports. Cybersecurity helps to protect the [...]
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Will the Senate pass a cybersecurity bill? That’s the major question looming this week as the time for congressional action in 2012 shrinks. While the House of Representatives passed a package of cybersecurity bills with bipartisan support, Senators seem to be struggling to find their own bipartisan agreement that can win the support of at least 60 members – the key threshold to pass just about any [...]
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ITI supports the four cybersecurity bills being voted on by the House of Representatives on Thursday, April 26th, because they help improve our personal security. As we rely more on our computers, smart phones, and tablets for work, entertainment, banking, shopping and communicating, new breeds of cybercriminals, hacktivists, and rogue nations have become as adept at exploiting the vulnerabilities [...]