Ex-NSA Chief: We Need Cybersecurity Legislation

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Former National Security Agency director General Keith Alexander said that Congress needs to pass cybersecurity legislation that will make it easier for government and the communications industry to work together to combat that threat.

He said that the government needed the ability to share threat info with industry, and industry with government.

"We need cybersecurity legislation. We need to push that through." He said he was not talking about sharing personally identifiable information, but instead "malicious activity." He also said it was needed to provide protection for industry players who act on threat information supplied by the government. "If the government tells industry: 'Please block this traffic,' and [the government] makes a mistake, then industry should have some form of liability protection."

He said those are the keys to cyber legislation.


Ex-NSA Chief: We Need Cybersecurity Legislation