Coming Cyber Commission Report Loaded with 75 Ways to Improve Security—Plus the Bill Proposals

Coming Cyber Commission Report Loaded with 75 Ways to Improve Security—Plus the Bill Proposals

Come March 11 the Congressionally chartered Cyberspace Solarium Commission will issue an estimated 75 recommendations—including to streamline Congressional oversight and for industry to provide incident reporting—most of which will be accompanied by legislative language, according to the commission’s top staffer.


The 14-member commission includes the four lawmakers—from the House and Senate— private-sector leaders, executive-branch agency heads and cybersecurity thinkers working on a strategy to blunt the harm of cyberattacks. They are required by the latest National Defense Authorization Act to issue their recommendations by April. 


“A little less than 50 of the 75 recommendations have congressional action required,” said Mark Montgomery, executive director of the commission. “We’ve written legislative proposals, whether it’s a line in, line out amendment to a bill or a straight bill, so that the four congressional leaders can take them into their home [committees] and begin to work that legislation right into law.”


Montgomery spoke along with Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., a commission member and chairman of a House Armed Services Committee panel on emerging technology, at an event hosted by BSA | The Software Alliance today.


“They wouldn’t be in the report itself as it would quadruple the length of it,” Montgomery said of the legislative provisions, “but they will be on the website where you can link into them on the day we release. And we’re also handing them to hill members so they can start to work on them.”


But because of the range of committees with jurisdiction over cybersecurity, it’s difficult to reach everyone involved, he said.


That’s an issue the report will focus heavily on, Langevin said, noting he’s been having conversations about reforming Congressional oversight for cybersecurity with the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., so it’s so ..

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