The U.S. Senate will take the next step toward adopting cybersecurity legislation with a hearing tomorrow before the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
The panel's chairman, John D. (Jay) Rockefeller (D., W.Va.), has introduced legislation with Sen. Olympia Snowe (R., Maine) that would direct the president to implement a comprehensive national cybersecurity policy and conduct a quadrennial review of the “cyber posture of the United States.”
The hearing is the Senate's first on the topic since the House approved the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009 (H.R. 4061), which would authorize the National Science Foundation to spend $395 million over five years on cybersecurity grants and $94 million on cybersecurity scholarships, among other things.
Sen. Rockefeller's bill is one of several legislative vehicles that could result in cybersecurity legislation reaching a House-Senate conference committee this year. Witnesses who are scheduled to testify at the hearing include Michael McConnell, former director of national intelligence; James Lewis, director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Scott Borg, director of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit; Jamie Barnett, chief of the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau; and Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle Corp.'s chief security officer. -- TL
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