Bipartisan national security experts favor regulation of critical infrastructure in...
Bipartisan national security experts favor regulation of critical infrastructure in cybersecurity legislation, they said in a letter made public by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., a sponsor of the Cybersecurity Act (S-2105), which has such a regulatory bent.…
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The letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Congress should take swift action on such legislation. “Infrastructure that controls our electricity, water and sewer, nuclear plants, communications backbone, energy pipelines and financial networks must be required to meet appropriate cyber security standards,” said former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, former Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, former CIA Director Michael Hayden, and others (http://xrl.us/bna72t): “Where market forces and existing regulations have failed to drive appropriate security, we believe that our government must do what it can to ensure the protection of our critical infrastructure.”