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Subject: [ISN] Congress hears criticisms of White House cyber proposal
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2011-06-28 11:53:50
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1106280453400.7803 () infosecnews ! org
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By Jared Serbu
Reporter
Federal News Radio
June 27, 2011
Experts from outside government criticized the White House's legislative
proposal for cybersecurity Friday, saying the bill the administration
has proposed could make the nation's critical infrastructure less
secure.
The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity invited
testimony from witnesses outside government. The subcommittee is one of
several Congressional panels tasked with developing information security
policy during the current legislative session.
Melissa Hathaway, who served as President Barack Obama's acting
cybersecurity chief during most of 2009, told the panel Congress should
closely examine the effects of the administration's proposal on industry
and invite private sector input. She said this is something the White
House process, which produced the legislative proposal submitted to
Congress earlier this year, appears not to have done.
"The administration's proposal had the opportunity to engage the private
sector to inform the debate and the items within the proposal. But
during the course of their review, they did not engage the private
sector," she told the subcommittee. "That's why it's so important that
this committee and other committees understand the second and third
order effects of regulation and other market levers."
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