This article refers to the Rockefeller-Snowe legislation would require NIST to establish cybersecurity standards that would apply to private and public companies.
The Rockefeller-Snowe measure would create the Office of the National Cybersecurity Adviser
In December 2008 the Center for Strategic & International Studies publishes Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency (former Senator Sam Nunn is chairman of the board of trustees).
Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency
This study calls for a National Office for Cyberspace the "NOC" and a partnership with the Private Sector on key infrastructures with the Telecommunications Advisory Committee. The study also calls for the President to end the division of technical standards between civilian and national security systems.
This is an interesting study worth reading and may be an influential guide to the way the government's direction will be taken on cybersecurity and the protection of U.S. interests in the private and government sectors.
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