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Recent Cyber Attacks Will Embolden Congress To Make Policy Changes, Dem Staffer Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

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Recent Cyber Attacks Will Embolden Congress To Make Policy Changes, Dem Staffer Says

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A series of recent cyber hacks and attacks impacting networks and industrial control systems have strengthened the resolve of Congress to make policy changes that the legislators generally have been reluctant to make previously, a Democratic staffer for the House Homeland Security Committee said on Tuesday. “I think you’re going to start seeing a higher risk tolerance for bolder policy changes and that goes from cyber incident reporting, which last year was sort of taboo when we tried to include…

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