Senate Has Two Competing Bills

The Senate now has two competing cyber security bills to consider. The new bill was unveiled yesterday by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). It sets up data sharing between the federal government and private sector operators of critical infrastructure. The competing bill gives the Homeland Security Department more authority to regulate cybersecurity practices of those operators. That bill came out last week, led by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.). Both bills would update the Federal Information Technology Management Act.