The Senate is back in Washington this week from their Easter
recess. While the House is just starting their last week they do have three
hearings this week in local venues. Between the two houses there will be two
hearings of potential specific interest to readers of this blog; both of them
related to cybersecurity.
Local Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security
Technologies Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee will be holding
a
hearing Thursday in Sherman, TX on "Cyber Preparedness and Response at
the Local Level". There is no witness list available yet, so it is
difficult to tell if any control system security issues will be raised.
Cyber Command
The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a
hearing on Tuesday on “United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense
Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2017”. The sole witness scheduled will be
Admiral Rogers, Commander, United States Cyber Command. It will be interesting
to see if there is any mention of either last December’s cyber-attack on the
grid in Ukraine (or its implications for defending the homeland) or the
recently reported attacks on either the (very) small dam in New York or the
unnamed water system.
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