Saturday, December 1, 2012

White House softens draft cybersecurity order with exemption for commercial tech products

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Back in September the White House confirmed earlier reports that it was drafting an executive order that would help businesses and government create best practices for cybersecurity. Now, according to the latest leaked draft of the order, it will still include a system for protecting critical infrastructure like power plants and railways from cyber attacks, but a number of changes mean that this won't include "any commercial information technology products." The program is voluntary and aims to provide a series of security standards to help protect infrastructure operators from attack. A separate revision to the order directs the Treasury and Commerce departments to identify incentives for those operators that do participate.


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