A group of Republican senators will unveil an alternative cybersecurity...
A group of Republican senators will unveil an alternative cybersecurity bill Thursday to compete with the Senate Cybersecurity Act, S-2105. The Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information, and Technology (SECURE IT) Act is sponsored by Sens. John…
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McCain, Ariz., Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas, Chuck Grassley, Iowa, Saxby Chambliss, Ga., Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, and Dan Coats, Ind. The “fundamental difference” between the two bills is that the SECURE IT Act will foster a “cooperative relationship with the entire private sector through information sharing, rather than an adversarial one with prescriptive regulations,” McCain said during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing last month. Specifically the new bill will improve public/private information sharing; update the criminal code to incorporate cyber crimes; reform the Federal Information Security Management Act; and increase cybersecurity investment, McCain said. The senators plan to unveil the legislation at a press conference at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the Senate Radio-Television Gallery in Room S-325 of the Capitol.