Capitol Hill: Cyber security committee formed to advise next president
Congressman
Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) announced the formation of a blue-ribbon commission of experts to study ways American Government and business can better protect themselves from computer attacks. The panel was formed in the wake of results of a Department of Homeland Security simulated data breach exercise. The panel will hand its recommendations to the next president when he or she takes office in January, 2009.
Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Jane Harman, chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information and Terrorism Risk Assessment, hailed the Bush Administration’s recently unveiled National Strategy for Information Sharing. The policy is designed to encourage federal security agencies to cooperate with their state and local counterparts.
Legislation advancing in the Senate, introduced by Maine Republican Susan Collins, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, would require the government to provide a protective security advisor for 10 states that don’t already have one.
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