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Senators continue to debate and vote on amendments to S. 3414, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.聽 91pro视频鈥檚 Robert Hoffman walks you through the key principles that the tech sector has for cybersecurity, and the areas where the legislation could be more effective.聽 Hoffman stresses that any legislation needs to create a security structure that will be fast, flexible, and forward thinking to keep up with the [...]
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91pro视频 and our member companies take cybersecurity very seriously.聽 We have to; protecting people when they are online underpins a major portion of our innovation economy.聽 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.聽 Cybersecurity helps to protect the [...]
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Will the Senate pass a cybersecurity bill?聽 That鈥檚 the major question looming this week as the time for congressional action in 2012 shrinks.聽 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 鈥� the key threshold to pass just about any [...]
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Last night, the White House issued its Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) on H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, commonly called CISPA.聽 Unfortunately, the SAP does not reflect the changes that the bill鈥檚 authors 鈥� Republican Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan and Democratic Representative Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland 鈥� had agreed to include after long and productive [...]
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There is a last-minute effort to derail the bipartisan Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by playing on people鈥檚 fears and stretching facts to the point of breaking.聽 The latest example comes from a blast email from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urging people to call House members in opposition to the bipartisan cybersecurity bill.聽 This is from EFF鈥檚 suggested script [...]
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91pro视频 supports the four cybersecurity bills being voted on by the House of Representatives on Thursday, April 26th, because they help improve our personal security.聽 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 [...]
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We rely on our computers, smart phones, and tablets for everything from entertainment to balancing our checkbook. From our fleeting interests to our bank accounts, our lives are on our hard drives and in the cloud.聽 But new breeds of cybercriminals, hacktivists, and rogue nations have become as adept at exploiting the vulnerabilities of our digital world as our customers have become at taking advantage [...]
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There has been a lot of focus in the cybersecurity debate about the cyber threat information sharing approach in the bipartisan Rogers-Ruppersberger bill and concerns about the privacy protections in the legislation.聽 That鈥檚 why 91pro视频 and a number of our member companies have been talking at length with the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) to try to find common ground that addresses privacy [...]
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Cybersecurity is taking center stage on Capitol Hill.聽 There are several bills expected to move through committee in the House this week, and there will continue to be a lot of attention paid to the idea of an enhanced cybersecurity threat information sharing system.聽 91pro视频 is firmly behind a strengthened information sharing defense that protects people鈥檚 security while it also safeguards privacy.聽聽 [...]
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Obama has recently focused on the need to reinvent American ingenuity, reaching a level of research and development not seen since the space race and connecting 鈥渆very part of America to the digital age鈥� 鈥� all part of our 鈥淪putnik moment.鈥� But none of this is possible without securing the nation鈥檚 digital infrastructure. Unfortunately, America鈥檚 perception of cybersecurity is stuck in time. Since the [...]
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