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As we’ve talked about this week, ITI and a broad coalition of technology and business organizations on Thursday urged Congress and the White House to revisit a provision buried in the recently enacted government funding bill. The provision would force several federal agencies buying IT systems manufactured in China to have those systems first be reviewed and approved by the FBI. It was buried in [...]
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Sound cybersecurity policy in the United States drifted off course late last month with passage and approval of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (Continuing Resolution). While we all, of course, support continued funding for our government, the tech industry was none too thrilled with a provision tucked in the resolution that bars several U.S. government [...]
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In his State of the Union Address, President Obama announced that he has signed an executive order (EO) designed to advance critical infrastructure (CI) cybersecurity. The President’s framework is a downpayment on the challenging task of protecting America’s citizens, critical assets, and infrastructures from ever-evolving cyber threats. As the White House developed this EO, we and other stakeholders [...]