President Obama Announces New Cybersecurity Legislative Proposal and Other Cybersecurity Efforts (updated)

President Barack Obama unveiled the next steps in his plan to defend the nation’s public and private networks.

These steps include a new legislative proposal, building on important work in Congress, to solve the challenges of information sharing that can cripple response to a cyberattack. They also include revisions to those provisions of his 2011 legislative proposal on which Congress has yet to take action, and along with them, President Obama is extending an invitation to work in a bipartisan, bicameral manner to advance this urgent priority for the American people. The cybersecurity legislative proposal includes enabling cybersecurity information sharing between the private sector and government, modernizing law enforcement authorities to combat cyber crime, and updating security breach reporting by encouraging a national data breach reporting standards.

Other cybersecurity efforts by President Obama include a February 13, 2015 White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, and the announcement of $25 million in grants over the next five years to support a cybersecurity education consortium with Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Read Remarks by the President at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center