ITAA Cybersecurity Bill Support: Strengthening Network Defenses

An influential high-tech lobby group Thursday told leadership in the House of Representatives that it supports a cybersecurity bill backed by Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., that is "crucial" for increasing online security research. Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) President Harris . . . An influential high-tech lobby group Thursday told leadership in the House of Representatives that it supports a cybersecurity bill backed by Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., that is "crucial" for increasing online security research. Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) President Harris Miller in a letter to House leadership said that "because research and development are vital to the nation's critical information systems, we urge Congress to act now."

Although Boehlert in 2001 said he had received positive statements from House and Senate leadership that his bill, H.R. 3394, would pass before the end of the year, it did not.

Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, said that the bill came to fruition after a committee hearing featuring government and industry witnesses who noted many deficiencies in current U.S. computer and network defenses.

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