Cybersecurity Bill in U.S. Senate Calls for Industry Rules
Companies running computer networks essential to U.S. economic and national security would be required to better defend their systems from spies, hackers and terrorists under bipartisan Senate legislation unveiled today.
The bill calls for identifying vital information networks and setting security requirements for companies and government agencies, says an AP report.. “We are on the brink of what could be a calamity,” Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said in announcing the bill on the Senate floor. “A widespread cyber attack could potentially be as devastating to this country as the terror attacks that tore apart this country 10 years ago.”