Bill Bennett: “Yesterday Senator Kyl and I introduced the Critical Infrastructure Information Security Act, CIISA, which is designed to…”

“Yesterday Senator Kyl and I introduced the Critical Infrastructure Information Security Act, CIISA, which is designed to minimize a dangerous national security blind spot by: one, protecting voluntarily shared critical infrastructure information; two, providing critical infrastructure threat analysis; and three, encouraging proactive industry cooperation. Critical infrastructures are those key sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, transportation, energy, emergency services, and government essential services, whose disruption or destruction would impact our economic or national security. On September 11, 2001, America suffered a senseless strike, where America's commercial air space was 'weaponized' and turned viciously against its financial and defense establishments in an infrastructure attack that resulted in staggering losses. About 85 percent of the United States' critical infrastructures, telecommunications, energy, finance, and transportation systems, are owned and operated by private companies. If our critical infrastructures are targets, it is the private sector that is on the front line.”