Senate Commerce to Vet Cybersecurity Effort

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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There is more Hill activity on the cybersecurity front.

Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller (D- W. Va.) and ranking member John Thune (R-S.D.) will hold a July 25 hearing on "The Partnership Between NIST and the Private Sector: Improving Cybersecurity."

The president's cybersecurity executive order instructed the National Institute of Standards and Technology to coordinate with DHS and stakeholders on voluntary cybersecurity best practices standards. It issued a draft earlier this month and must produce a final document by October.

The hearing will look at both the public-private partnership those standards require and proposals to improve cybersecurity R&D, training and awareness.

The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity earlier this week held a hearing on the president's executive order and the cybersecurity framework.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.