USTelecom Praises House Committee Passage of Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act
USTelecom Senior Executive Vice President Alan Roth praised the House Homeland Security Committee Tuesday for marking up the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act (HR-1731) and advancing the cybersecurity information sharing bill toward full House consideration. The bill is one of…
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three information sharing bills that House and Senate leaders plan to marry into a single bill in the near future (see 1504140044). “The purpose of this and related bills should be to protect American networks, critical infrastructure, intellectual property, and consumers from incoming threats and cyber-attacks -- not to encourage the second-guessing of decisions that must often be made in a split second by network engineers,” Roth said in a statement. “A public law that renders our networks less safe, or that results in little or no private sector participation for fear of attracting litigation, will ultimately be judged a failure. We hope all interested parties will bear that in mind as the amendment process unfolds on the House and Senate floors.”