There's likely to be a "pause" in Congress with respect to any statutory change around cybersecurity regulations, according to Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn.
Himes, the ranking member of the NSA and Cybersecurity Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, gave the keynote speech during a recent cybersecurity summit hosted by NCS Regulatory Compliance in New York.
|Evolving cybersecurity defenses
"It's not that there isn't a high level sense of urgency around evolving our overall cybersecurity defenses — including law, including our own federal government protections," he explained. "Almost a day doesn't go by that we don't see an Equifax, a Sony, a Target or an SEC [hack]."
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Emily Zulz
Emily joined the ThinkAdvisor team as a reporter in the summer of 2014. She previously worked as a reporter for The Daily Journal in Kankakee, Illinois for a year and as a reporter and editor for The Daily Eastern News in Charleston, Illinois for two and a half years. Prior to joining ThinkAdvisor, Emily worked on Groupon’s editorial team in Chicago as a fact checker for three years. She graduated cum laude with a BA in journalism from Eastern Illinois University, and she has been the recipient of two journalism awards for her news reporting at daily newspapers.
