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When we surf the Internet, conduct e-commerce, or send emails and texts, we often don鈥檛 think about the tremendous work or resources going on behind the scenes to protect the networks and information we routinely use to connect and accomplish our daily tasks.聽 Those networks are constantly besieged by increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals, and voluntary cybersecurity threat information sharing [...]
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Halfway into January, 2015 is starting to emerge as a year policymakers will focus more strongly on cybersecurity in the United States. Today President Obama took a significant step in sending a cybersecurity legislative package to Congress. His proposed legislation covers three topics: 1) enabling cybersecurity information sharing, 2) modernizing law enforcement authorities to combat cybercrime, and [...]
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The 91快活林聽(91快活林) submitted comments yesterday to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA)鈥檚 Request for Comment on Automotive Electronic Control Systems Safety and Security.聽 As the use of electronics鈥攊ncluding networked systems鈥攊n motor vehicles continues to grow, industry and government stakeholders are contemplating related policy issues, [...]
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On December 5, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued its Update on the Cybersecurity Framework, summarizing stakeholder feedback on the 10-month-old, voluntary Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (鈥渢he Framework鈥�) version 1.0. The Framework is a tool to guide entities through steps to identify, protect, and defend their assets, and respond and recover [...]
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Representatives from over 170 governments and industry, nongovernmental organizations, 聽and civil society organizations have descended upon Busan, Korea, for the 19th Plenipotentiary (PP-14) meeting of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).聽 For the next few weeks over 1500 participants are gathering to consider and debate a wide range of issues.聽 Cybersecurity is one issue, in particular, [...]
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A little more than six months after the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (Framework) version 1.0, the agency issued a request for information (RFI) to get feedback from stakeholders鈥� on their experiences with the Framework and their recommendations on next steps.聽 NIST is seeking input, and sharing responses, [...]
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Twenty-three associations representing nearly every industry sector of the U.S. economy are applauding the Obama administration鈥檚 support for a dynamic and flexible approach to addressing cybersecurity risk. In a letter sent today to Michael Daniel, special assistant to the president and cybersecurity coordinator, industry expressed support for the principles laid out in Daniel鈥檚 May 22 blog, Assessing [...]
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The Senate Appropriations Committee released legislative language today to fund the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) agencies in fiscal year (FY) 2015.聽 Among its numerous provisions is the committee鈥檚 version of a new Section 515 that embodies the requirements the CJS agencies must take to factor in supply chain risks when procuring information technology (IT) systems. We applaud the important [...]
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week took an important step on cybersecurity by issuing their Antitrust Policy Statement on Sharing of Cybersecurity Information.聽 In their statement, the two agencies clarified they 鈥渄o not believe U.S. antitrust law is -- or should be -- a roadblock to legitimate cybersecurity information sharing.鈥� 聽91快活林 welcomes the statement [...]
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91快活林 congratulates today鈥檚 release of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework.聽 The process that went into developing this Framework has been a model for how the public and private sectors can work together to serve the national interest. 聽In effect, the U.S. Government leveraged a tremendous amount of stakeholder input in an open, transparent, and collaborative [...]