DOD Official: Legislation Needed To Create, Enforce Cybersecurity Standards

By Jordana Mishory / February 22, 2013 at 6:37 PM
A senior Pentagon official has called on lawmakers to pass legislation to create and enforce standards for companies to strengthen their networks against cybersecurity attacks. "I believe that there has to be some aspect of best practices that Congress nudges the private sector to raise their game on this," Eric Rosenbach, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, said today at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association cybersecurity symposium. Rosenbach added that a lot of industry leaders...

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