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these threats,” said Langevin, the ranking member of the House Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee. About 20,000 to 30,000 federal workers are needed in the field, he said. Cybersecurity legislation needs to move forward, said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. “We are ready in the Senate. We hope to do a major bill.” Malicious actors in cyberspace “already caused damage to the U.S. government,” economy and citizens, Whitehouse said. “Intellectual property worth over $1 trillion has already been stolen.” The industry and government must establish basic rules of the road, he added. “We can’t have vulnerabilities be the nation’s dirty, big secret any longer.” The cybersecurity efforts of government and industry are static, said National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander. “We have to do much more,” like give administrators an active role in looking for the threats, he said. He also stressed the need for privacy protections: “Civil liberties and privacy are not at the expense of cybersecurity.” The government also should find a way to share threat signatures with international allies in classified form, he added. The Energy Department is developing a roadmap to secure control systems in the energy sector, said Douglas Maughan, cybersecurity division director at the Homeland Security Department. The process includes developing and integrating protective measures, ensuring that improvements are sustained and assessing the Energy Department’s security posture, because “we can’t tell how sick many of our systems are,” he said. In research, “I've seen no end to technologies being funded and then end up catching dust, never being released into the public,” he said. “We have to change that.”