Cybersecurity
U.S. ‘Dangerously Insecure’ in Preparing for Major Cyber-Attacks
- Commission recommends major changes for government, businesses
- Report comes amid warnings about hacking threat to election
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The U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission -- a bipartisan body of lawmakers, intelligence officials and others -- warned that the nation is “dangerously insecure in cyber,” and recommended a series of actions intended to avert damaging attacks on critical infrastructure and the financial system.
The commission’s approximately 80 recommendations include actions such as establishing new cybersecurity committees in both houses of Congress and creating an Assistant Secretary of State to lead a new cybersecurity bureau. It also called for creating a Bureau of Cyber Statistics and passing a national data security and privacy protection law.