Congress this week will be introduced to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, which aims to protect crucial American computer infrastructure by giving oversight to the Department of Homeland Security. Experts say it’s possible that large law firms and corporate legal departments could be impacted and find themselves reporting security procedures to the federal government, or face fines and public scrutiny.
The bill states that oversight, as evaluated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, would apply to any agency, company, or organization at which an electronic attack “could reasonably lead to catastrophic interruption of life-sustaining services, catastrophic economic damage, or severe degredation of national security capabilities,” according to summary documents on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs site.
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