Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the MGT Act and of continued efforts to improve the federal government's cybersecurity posture. I would like to thank Mr. Hurd for his tireless efforts advocating for this bill and his partners on the Oversight Committee, Mr. Connolly and Ms. Kelly for their cybersecurity leadership. I also must acknowledge the House's Minority Whip and my good friend, Mr. Hoyer, for his work pushing for IT modernization. The idea for the kind of revolving fund included as part of the MGT Act grew out of President Obama's Cybersecurity National Action Plan, itself issued in direct response to the massive breach of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM was yet another wake up call to the government about the lax attitude toward security present at many agencies, but, to the prior administration's credit, the CNAP contained a number of needed policy shifts, including the creation of a federal Chief Information Security Officer and the use of DHS's authority to conduct a government-wide review of high value assets. Central to the CNAP, though, was the realization that attempting to secure antiquated federal IT systems was a losing proposition. Just as the Internet--developed in the 1970s--was not created with security in mind, so, too, are many older government systems devoid of even basic security controls.…”