Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sounds the alarm in The Hill:
Our nation's computer systems are vulnerable to online attack. This is a growing threat to our economy and our national security. American businesses understand this threat — this is why last year they invested more than $80 billion in the security of their computer networks.Technorati tags:
I came to Washington as the CEO of a manufacturing company. I know firsthand that the private sector is choking on a torrent of federal regulations. Job creators face a $1.75 trillion — and growing — regulatory burden. In his first three years, President Obama issued 106 regulations that each had more than a $100 million impact on the private sector, and hundreds more that imposed smaller but still heavy burdens.
These days, businesses are more likely to hire a lawyer than a new employee.
Yet proposals in Congress, advocated by the White House, would give the federal government, namely the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), power to dictate cyber-regulations to the private sector. Such regulations would create a maze of assessments, audits and standards that must be obeyed by companies deemed by DHS to be "covered critical infrastructure."
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This is one of those areas which is arguably a national defense issue. Other countries, notably China, have already internalized this, and are actively penetrating computer systems of all types. One particular area is industrial espionage, and another is our infrastructure. So far, the US military is taking this seriously, but many of our companies are not. Often the IT security guys are banging their heads against a stone wall in getting their senior management to spend the money to fix this. Typically a company does not know it has been hacked until the results of expensive R&D turn up elsewhere. While I share the concern about this administration implementing yet another set of rules, it appears that we as a nation need to do something to address the situation. It isn't obvious how this happens without either government pressure, or a catastrophic result.
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