With the country’s utility, security, and financial systems all vulnerable to cyberattacks, security experts are telling Congress that increased government oversight is necessary to insure the nation’s cybersecurity.
According to the Associated Press,
U.S. computer networks — from the Defense Department to small companies — are scanned and probed millions of times a day. The assaults range from small time hackers looking to steal credit card data to nation states and terror groups aimed at espionage or disrupting vital computer systems….
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the [Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee], said the government must work with the private sector, because neither can do it alone. He noted that private industry owns or controls roughly 85 percent of computer networks, and said companies meeting with the committee have balked at greater government control.
