House Commerce Manufacturing Subcommittee Chair Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., on...
House Commerce Manufacturing Subcommittee Chair Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., on Tuesday introduced a companion cybersecurity bill to go with the Senate SECURE IT Act. The GOP-backed bill largely mirrors the Senate bill and includes new provisions to update the federal…
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criminal code to account for cybercrimes. Bono Mack offered a thinly veiled criticism of the Senate Cybersecurity Act (S-2105) and said that her bill avoids a “heavy handed ‘gun-to-the-head’ approach” to cybersecurity. “The best way to fight cyber attacks in the future is to unleash that innovation in a cooperative, ‘we're-all-in-this-together’ effort,” Bono Mack said. “Just as importantly, we can accomplish all of this during these difficult economic times without creating a new bureaucracy and spending money that we don’t have, while protecting consumer privacy at the same time.” The bill breaks down legal barriers to increase voluntarily private sector information sharing; modernizes the Federal Information Security Management Act; updates federal criminal codes; and increases cybersecurity research. The bill was co-sponsored by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. But Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., said the bill would be “a major step backward in efforts to protect against the serious threat of severe economic and physical damage from a cyberattack,” in a separate statement. Langevin is a co-founder of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus and the author of the Executive Cyberspace Coordination Act (HR-1136).