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Senate Hearing: Trust and Security in Critical Infrastructure Management

Calendar May 13, 2002 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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The private sector manages more than 85 percent of the nation's critical infrastructure and must therefore collaborate with the government to protect those resources, officials said at a Senate hearing last week. . . . The private sector manages more than 85 percent of the nation's critical infrastructure and must therefore collaborate with the government to protect those resources, officials said at a Senate hearing last week.

Such collaboration requires an environment conducive to companies voluntarily sharing vital information and a cultural change on both sides that will take time, said government and industry leaders speaking at a May 8 Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. If this doesn't change, numerous gaps in homeland security will remain open to attack.

Sens. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) are promoting the Critical Infrastructure Information Security Act to enable the federal government and industry to share information about potential threats to the nation's critical infrastructure without fear that the data would be released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

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