Reformers stress cybersecurity risks

Supporters of cybersecurity reform are playing offense throughout the region this week, emphasizing dire digital threats to the nation’s critical infrastructure in a bid to break a long-running political stalemate. At conferences, panels, speeches and other events in Washington and elsewhere, lawmakers and top White House officials have hyped the risks to state secrets, corporate property and the public’s well-being posed by hackers and spies while reaffirming the need to patch cybersecurity vulnerabilities before the year’s end. The roadshow stopped in Baltimore on Oct 16. At an industry conference, the White House’s top cybersecurity adviser, Michael Daniel, said the latest spate of cyberattacks around the world marks a “significant escalation in the cyber threat.”