Lungren Bill Emerges from Committee
On Wednesday the House Homeland Security Committee marked up the Lungren cybersecurity proposal. The details are reported here and are difficult to piece together. In so far as one can tell, the Chairman's amendment softened the directive nature of DHS's role in providing cybersecurity and moved the information sharing provisions and definitions in the bill closer to those in Rogers-Ruppersberger. The result of these changes is that the bi
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On Wednesday the House Homeland Security Committee marked up the Lungren cybersecurity proposal. The details are reported here and are difficult to piece together. In so far as one can tell, the Chairman's amendment softened the directive nature of DHS's role in providing cybersecurity and moved the information sharing provisions and definitions in the bill closer to those in Rogers-Ruppersberger. The result of these changes is that the bill was ordered reported out of Committee on a party-line vote (16-13), a significant change from the near-unanimity that greeted the Lungren bill in subcommittee. The changes no doubt reflect the decision of House Leadership to resolve the intra-party dispute between Rogers and Lungren, leaving the Democratic minority on the outside looking in.
Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company and a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University, a Senior Fellow in the Tech, Law & Security program at American University, and a Board Member of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.
