Lawmakers: Speed up cyberdefense work

There remains significant trepidation on Capitol Hill that the Pentagon’s hub for cybersecurity defenses is maturing slowly, even as the Obama administration emphasizes in its clearest terms to date that hackers and spies are one of the country’s most serious threats. Democrats and Republicans at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing praised U.S. Cyber Command for its development so far, but lawmakers appeared eager for the Defense Department to move more quickly on hiring experts and drafting rules of engagement in cyberspace.