Senate Schedules Cybersecurity Hearing

By ( Broadcasting & Cable ) published

The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing March 7 on
implementation of the president's executive order on cybersecurity.

That order includes easing government sharing of cyberthreat
information with industry and calls for creation of voluntary cybersecurity
best practices guidelines.

"The Cybersecurity Partnership Between the Private Sector
and Our Government: Protecting our National and Economic Security" will be
a joint hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee.

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.