Reid Aide: Cyber Bill Targets ‘Life Or Death’ Infrastructure

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D., Nev.) top cybersecurity aide emphasized today that major cybersecurity legislation expected to be introduced soon in the Senate is narrowly targeted at U.S. critical infrastructure whose failure would pose "life or death" consequences for the country, and would set up security baselines for critical infrastructure that should be sufficient to foil most cyber attacks on the sector.

Speaking to a meeting of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB), Tommy Ross, senior intelligence and defense advisor to Sen. Reid, said the Senate bill would provide the federal government with "some ability" to improve cybersecurity within a "narrow slice" of the U.S. critical infrastructure community.

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