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The Commerce Department should be “cyber-obsessed,” said Senate Appropriations Subcommittee...

The Commerce Department should be “cyber-obsessed,” said Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce Chair Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. To defend against “cyberespionage,” the department should better protect its online systems, she said at a budget hearing Thursday. “Cyberespionage is a very considerable…

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threat,” Commerce Secretary John Bryson said. “We are not fully prepared as a country to address that.” The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency within Commerce, is working to set technology performance standards “that will apply not just the federal government, not just across the U.S., but likely around the world,” he said.