10.09.2012 - 14:52 [ techdirt ]

White House Preparing Executive Order As A Stand-In For CISPA

This isn‘t a huge surprise — and last month we even discussed the possibility, but it sounds as though the White House has decided that, with the failure of Congress to pass a comprehensive cybersecurity bill (CISPA passed in the House, but the rather different Cybersecurity Act failed in the Senate), it is going to issue some sort of executive order to deal with „cybersecurity issues.“