From: CIO
Lawmaker warns that lack of cybersecurity standards in government and private sector is ‘of great concern.’ New regulations could rankle the tech industry.
WASHINGTON — If businesses don’t put in place stronger cybersecurity defenses, Congress might do it for them.
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“I will tell you this: In the event of a cyber Pearl Harbor, the public will demand that Congress regulate, and standards will be imposed and there’ll be no getting around that,” Connolly said in remarks at a recent meeting of the Cloud Computing Advisory Caucus, which he co-chairs. “And if we want to avoid that, we’ve got to try to encourage [the] private sector to set very high standards that they voluntarily agree to try to meet.”
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