NEW YORK: Officially we state that Carly Fiorina has called on Congress to pass the controversial Cyber security Information (CSI) Sharing Act, suggesting that “collaboration” between the federal government and private companies would help prevent cyberattacks.”There is a level of collaboration that’s required between the private sector and the public sector to detect and repel attacks,” Fiorina said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on. “That requires an act of Congress.
There is a bill that’s been languishing, frankly, in Congress for several years now. needs to get that bill passed so that level of collaboration is possible.”Outside of passing the cyberbill, Fiorina said, “It’s important to recognize that these cyber attacks that have been going on against the federal government systems, none of those are a surprise. We’ve known for over a decade the Chinese were coming after our most important systems.
“We ought to make it very painful for the Chinese to be aggressive in cyberwarfare,” the former Hewlett-Packard CEO concluded. She did not specify what that would entail.The Senate recessed in August without passing a cyberbill. The legislation would grant companies like Apple and Google immunity from lawsuits that result from the companies giving their customers’ information to the federal government. Business entities like the Chamber of Commerce and the Financial Services Round table support the bill.
