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Cyber Security Experts Offer Suggestions For Additional Legislation

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 25th, 2016

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Cyber Security Experts Offer Suggestions For Additional Legislation

Future legislation to enhance cyber security posture across the United States should include more types of information sharing, consideration of how companies can more actively defend themselves from attacks, creation of a deterrence strategy, and analytics, a group of cyber security experts told a House panel on Thursday.Companies need to have more room to “proactively defend their systems” because they “can’t afford to wait,” for the government to act and if “government is not going to respond someone needs to…

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