
The House on Monday afternoon passed two cyber security bills, one aimed at helping small business and the other aimed at assessing the security posture of the Small Business Administration. Separately, on Monday, Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), introduced a bill to establish a three-year pilot program that attempts to make it easier for U.S. universities to protect research from cyber-attacks. He said that universities are currently required to implement more than 100 controls to protect certain research but the complexity…