S.773 - Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Sponsor: John Rockefeller / 111th Congress

Title
111th Congress - A bill to ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve and maintain effective cybersecurity defenses against disruption, and for other purposes. hidemore...
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A bill to ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve and maintain effective cybersecurity defenses against disruption, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
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S. 773 Makes Cybersecurity Hot Issue of First 100 by Lauren Christensen, Apr 23, 2009 (1:17am)

The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is a broad-based internet security bill that aims to strengthen the free flow of global commerce while developing new security technology and procedures. The response to this legislation has been mixed. Of course there are extremist groups toting the bill as an invasion of privacy and an infringement on our rights, but credible information technology sources have also expressed their concerns. While the bill is prided for increasing funding for cybersecurity and seeing it as a pressing issue in general, many internet scholars feel that the approach itself is not very plausible. The first part of this bill introduces the idea of an internet security advisory committee to help the President properly address cyber issues. The second part plays with the notion of creating a centralized security system for at least government agencies, with the possibility of extending it to other “critical infrastructure”. The bill makes it sound like there is a way to solve all internet security problems with one solution, which scholars like Steven Bellovin, a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University makes clear there is not. He also notes that by putting much of the internet under one security system we are actually putting the country in more danger, because once the code is cracked, [and he is assuming it will eventually] much more data will be lost or released. He feels that the current system of cryptography is much more secure.

I am not sure where or how far this bill will go. Cybersecurity is a very delicate issue, and even in the first month of introduction there have been revisions and modifications made to the bill. I think that while the U.S. will continue efforts to regulate and secure internet information, it is not likely that this will be the bill to do so.

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