By Eric Chabrow | GovInfoSecurity.com
The No. 1 reason Congress, after five years of intensive efforts, has yet to enact comprehensive cybersecurity legislation is differences over how much liability protection to grant businesses to get them to share cyberthreat information.
“The one issue that has made it difficult for us to put together any kind of comprehensive cybersecurity security has been our inability to agree on what kind of liability is appropriate,” Sen. Tom Carper, the Delaware Democrat who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said during a March 26 hearing he called on cyberthreat information sharing between the federal government and the private sector. “If we can solve this one, I think we’ll move a long way to where we need to go in this arena.”
The one issue that has made it difficult for us to put together any kind of comprehensive cybersecurity security has been our inability to agree on what kind of liability is appropriate.
But the barrier for agreement on liability protection – one of the few cybersecurity issues where a partisan divide exists – remains a high one to clear as the attitudes of the Democratic-run administration and its supporters in the Senate and Republican lawmakers seem rigid.
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