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Continuing his push for stronger cyber security and his willingness to use executive authority to jumpstart security initiatives, as anticipated President Obama signed an Executive Order (EO) Friday meant to urge organizations to share cyber threat intelligence with each other and government. Noting...

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed to the CyberSecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, giving the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the go-ahead to develop voluntary cyber standards for critical infrastructure. The bipartisan legislation will bolster cybe...

Lawmakers are again trying to pass cyber security legislation that would formalize cooperation among businesses and the federal government to help better defend the nation's critical infrastructure.On Wednesday, a group of seven Democratic senators, led by John Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., introduced th...

A cyber security executive order could be issued by President Obama as soon as early 2013, according to White House sources. James Lewis, director of the technology and public policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told global affairs blog The Hill on Friday that ...

As the Senate again struck down a cyber security bill, the public learned that President Obama reportedly signed a “secret” directive to permit more aggressive military action to stop cyber threats. The largely Democratic-backed bill in the Senate that was killed Tuesday failed to win enough support...

Stuxnet was a game changer, but control systems that run the nation's infrastructure are still at risk, reports Deb Radcliff.For more than 10 years, they saw it coming: SCADA (supervisory control data acquisition) systems managing critical infrastructures would be targeted by cyber terrorists, activ...

Debate: A White House order on cyber security would be a step in the right direction for safeguarding networks.FORRichard C. LaMagna, president, LaMagna and AssociatesState-sponsored cyber attacks require a state-led response. President Obama's planned executive order (E.O.) in response to the ...

Last week I stumbled across a story on CNN Money, titled "Major banks hit with biggest cyber attacks in history."After reading the headline, I decided it was probably best to forgo reading the rest of the article -- and instead just duck for cover. A few days later, when I deemed it safe enough to e...

The Obama administration hopes to issue a cyber security executive order similar to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, killed by the Senate.On Friday, Techdirt.com published what it described as a leaked draft of the White House's 19-page executive order, which outlines the security objectives prop...

»The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was defeated in the Senate. The bill would have incentivized those companies that operate critical infrastructure to meet security best practices. The bill was re-introduced in July to include privacy concessions and rid the enforcement oversight it originally gave to ...