if you believe additional authorities are needed, please let us know. Because it makes no sense at all for us to operate at the speed of the industrial age in cyberspace.
Mac Thornberry
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Congress is working on cyber legislation to try to update some of the laws that had not been updated.
We are actually going to have to start training the lawyers to understand some of this stuff.
So, Representative Thornberry, the Senate 933 report, which we are finishing up, outlines the Department's strategy for cyber integration.
I think it is vital to pull small businesses in, not just through SBIR programs but actually to couple them to the core programs of each of the agencies.
It seems to me if we end up with 500 nuclear weapons and country A has a couple hundred, that all the incentive in the world is for them to catch us.
I would also like to commend the work of Speaker Boehner's Cyber Security Task Force and the leadership of Representative Mac Thornberry.
I think increasingly, small businesses, like all businesses, are going to have to understand that if their customer records are stolen and misused, they may have some responsibility for that.
As they multiply, the potential entry points for attacks of some sort multiply as well, and I don't think there has been nearly enough attention by the software companies, the hardware companies or us as individuals into safeguarding these…





