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Bipartisan Sponsors Of Cyber Bill Note Concerns With Separate Republican Legislation

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

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Senate co-sponsors of bi-partisan legislation that would give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) authority to designate which private infrastructure in the country should be required to meet certain performance requirements when it comes to protecting their assets from cyber threats say an alternative bill submitted by eight Republican senators falls short of advancing critical infrastructure security in the cyber domain. The SECURE IT Act (S. 2151), introduced by the Republican senators recently, “does little to ensure that we improve…

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