House Releases Cybersecurity Strategy Report

The House Energy and Commerce Committee released the comprehensive Cybersecurity Strategy Report, in which it identified procedures to both address and prevent cybersecurity incidents. In the report, the committee identified six key concepts and priorities, noting, “The identification of these principles shaped the subcommittee’s approach to cybersecurity and guided subsequent work. As each of these concepts emerged, the subcommittee began exploring and analyzing possible strategies for addressing them.” In addition to recognizing that there will always be unknowns and that it’s impossible to protect what you don’t know you have, the committee also realized that software is no longer written but assembled. As a result, there must be a common cybersecurity language, which was the fourth concept. The remaining two concepts stated, “Digital assets age faster and less predictably than physical ones. Cybersecurity takes a 'whole-of-society' approach.”