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There is a last-minute effort to derail the bipartisan Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by playing on people’s fears and stretching facts to the point of breaking. The latest example comes from a blast email from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urging people to call House members in opposition to the bipartisan cybersecurity bill. This is from EFF’s suggested script [...]
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ITI supports the four cybersecurity bills being voted on by the House of Representatives on Thursday, April 26th, because they help improve our personal security. As we rely more on our computers, smart phones, and tablets for work, entertainment, banking, shopping and communicating, new breeds of cybercriminals, hacktivists, and rogue nations have become as adept at exploiting the vulnerabilities [...]
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We rely on our computers, smart phones, and tablets for everything from entertainment to balancing our checkbook. From our fleeting interests to our bank accounts, our lives are on our hard drives and in the cloud. But new breeds of cybercriminals, hacktivists, and rogue nations have become as adept at exploiting the vulnerabilities of our digital world as our customers have become at taking advantage [...]
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There has been a lot of focus in the cybersecurity debate about the cyber threat information sharing approach in the bipartisan Rogers-Ruppersberger bill and concerns about the privacy protections in the legislation. That’s why ITI and a number of our member companies have been talking at length with the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) to try to find common ground that addresses privacy [...]
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Cybersecurity is taking center stage on Capitol Hill. There are several bills expected to move through committee in the House this week, and there will continue to be a lot of attention paid to the idea of an enhanced cybersecurity threat information sharing system. ITI is firmly behind a strengthened information sharing defense that protects people’s security while it also safeguards privacy. [...]
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Obama has recently focused on the need to reinvent American ingenuity, reaching a level of research and development not seen since the space race and connecting “every part of America to the digital age” — all part of our “Sputnik moment.” But none of this is possible without securing the nation’s digital infrastructure. Unfortunately, America’s perception of cybersecurity is stuck in time. Since the [...]
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