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Private Sector Enhances Infrastructure Security Through Collaboration

Calendar May 09, 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, according to government and industry leaders speaking at a May 8 Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. . . . 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, according to government and industry leaders speaking at a May 8 Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing.

But such collaboration requires an environment conducive to companies voluntarily sharing vital information and a cultural change on both sides that will take time, they said, leaving numerous seams open to enemy attacks in the meantime.

Sens. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) are pushing 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.

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