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House Overwhelmingly Passes Cybersecurity Bill

Posted by timothy on from the critical-mass-of-buzzwords dept.

eldavojohn writes "The Caucus, a NY Times Blog, is reporting on the overwhelming majority vote (422 yeas) the House gave a new cybersecurity bill. The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act, H.R. 4061 has a number of interesting provisions. Representative Michael Arcuri, a Democrat of New York who sponsored the bill called cybersecurity the 'Manhattan Project of our generation' and estimated the US needs 500 to 1,000 more 'cyber warriors' every year in order to keep up with potential enemies. The new bill 'authorizes one single entity, the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to represent the government in negotiations over international standards and orders the White House office of technology to convene a cybersecurity university-industry task force to guide the direction of future research.'"

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  1. Re:I need a job and this one fits my life to a tee by chill · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.usajobs.gov/

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  2. So now suddenly it's OK again? by moz25 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Too little, too late.

    For more than a decade, effort was done to *weaken* the domestic talent at developing themselves or helping (causing) to harden the existing infrastructure.

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  3. Re:Why Icecream has no bones by fibrewire · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nah, I just get sick of cybersecurity bill garbage - not like anyone on slashdot is going to do anything about it.

  4. Google attack? by antiaktiv · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would it have had as much support without the recent (allegedly chinese) attack against Google and other companies?

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