Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D- W.Va., sen...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D- W.Va., sent a letter to 11 agencies on Tuesday asking for their cybersecurity provisions in light of a reported July 4 distributed denial of service attack against several federal and private sector…
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sites that kept the sites unavailable for days. The letter asks for plans and procedures, how often the agencies test emergency recovery, how often they probe their own systems and whether contractors have cybersecurity- related service agreements that assure attackers can’t use them as a backdoor means of entry. He sent the letters to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, and Transportation, the FTC, the FCC, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Maritime Commission. Rockefeller is the sponsor of the Cybersecurity Act (S-773).