Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., urged President Barack Obama to issue...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., urged President Barack Obama to issue an executive order to increase the cybersecurity of the nation’s critical infrastructure. The request came in a recent letter (http://xrl.us/bnnmqd). “I believe the time has come for you to use…
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your full authority to protect the U.S. economy and the networks we depend on from future cyber attack,” she said. Feinstein urged the president to issue an order to require cybersecurity standards, provide technical cybersecurity assistance to companies and direct the intelligence community and the Department of Homeland Security to provide both classified and unclassified cyberthreat information to the private sector. Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, is a sponsor of the Cybersecurity Act (S-3414). She said opponents were able to defeat progress on the bill despite “good faith efforts to reach a compromise and major concessions on our part.”