Proposed Bill Aims To Pressure DHS

There was a bill tabled on Wednesday in US Congress that aims to hold DHS’s feet to the flames.

From Securityfocus:

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-RI, introduced a bill on Wednesday that aims to hold the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for investigating every cyber attack and for shoring up its network security.

The bill would better define the roles and responsibilities of the agency’s chief information officer, require that the department reduce the number of successful attacks against its networks and mandate that the DHS investigate the state of contractors’ network security before signing a contract with them. The bill comes after more than a year of investigations by the House of Representative’s Committee for Homeland Security into cybersecurity breaches at numerous government agencies. Rep. Langevin heads up the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity and Science & Technology, which has held most of the hearings on the issues.

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