Bill would launch cybersecurity grant program for state and local governments
Proposed legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security grant program that would bolster cybersecurity for state and local government IT networks faces a steep climb in Congress, but its backers say the need is urgent. “There’s an acknowledgement that this is a real problem …[and that] things could get worse … As [former Defense Secretary] Leon Panetta has observed, we’re at something of a pre-9/11 point in cyber,” said Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., a co-sponsor of the State Cyber Resiliency Act, HR 1344. His GOP co-sponsor is Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock. An identical companion bill in the Senate, S. 516, is sponsored by Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Cory Gardner, R-Colo. Cyber threats “aren’t aimed at red districts or blue districts — all of our communities are vulnerable … There is an obvious need and I hope that makes it more likely that this bill could move,” Kilmer told CyberScoop in an […]
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