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Committee approves cybersecurity bill |
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee cleared the measure out of committee
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved a version of a comprehensive cybersecurity bill that its leaders introduced earlier this month.
Senators on the committee agreed to the legislation by a voice vote On June 24, sending it to the full Senate. Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Thomas Carper (D-Del.) proposed the measure that would reform how the government protects information systems and specifically grant the Homeland Security Department new computer security-related authorities. The legislation passed June 24.
Lieberman and Collins are the chairman and the ranking Republican, respectively, on the full committee; Carper chairs that panel’s Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security Subcommittee.
Lieberman and Collins said the bill wouldn’t greatly expand presidential authorities over the Internet in the event of a cybersecurity emergency, as some have suggested. For example, Lieberman emphasized that the bill wouldn’t give the president “kill switch” powers.
The proposal must now be reconciled with the many other cybersecurity measures that have been introduced in the Senate, including a different comprehensive proposal that cleared the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee earlier this year.
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CyberWatch Launches Phase II of Comprehensive K-12 SECURE IT Program to Fill the Cybersecurity Workforce Pipeline |
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Program Details
June 8, 2010 Largo, MD.---The CyberWatch Center announced today at the 2010 CISSE Conference that it has partnered with the Baltimore County and Howard County School Systems in Maryland to launch Phase II of its K-12 SECURE IT Program to help fill the Cybersecurity workforce pipeline. Educators and security experts alike have identified the growing gap in cyber security workers as a major weakness for the nation. SECURE IT is a unique effort that will establish the viability of a comprehensive program covering the entire K-12 education system by pioneering a response for the nation in the state of Maryland.
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Mission: The mission of CyberWatch is to increase the quantity and quality of the information assurance (IA) workforce.
Who CyberWatch is: CyberWatch is a consortium of higher education institutions, businesses, and government agencies that is focused on building and maintaining a stronger information assurance workforce. In addition, CyberWatch is committed to improving the quality and increasing the awareness of information assurance issues in the education and business communities.
What CyberWatch does: Consortium participants collaborate to share best practices, methodologies, curricula, and course modules and materials. CyberWatch provides faculty training and support to colleges who want to develop or upgrade an information assurance curriculum. CyberWatch develops career pathways, including articulation agreements from high schools to colleges, from community colleges to baccalaureate institutions, and on into graduate school. CyberWatch sponsors student competitions in cyber defense, digital forensics, and security awareness; and it organizes scholarships, internships, and job fairs. CyberWatch maintains an extensive K-12 program for teachers, counselors, and students. And finally CyberWatch engages in significant outreach and dissemination initiatives to the public.
CyberWatch is an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Center, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). |
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