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September 24, 2012 10:21 pm GMT

Napolitano: Congress Got Stuck on Cybersecurity


United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano took a jab at Congress for failing to act on cybersecurity during a panel on the subject Monday at the 2012 Social Good Summit.

Congress has so far failed to pass cybersecurity legislation this year. Both chambers have their own versions of cyber bills, but they have yet to pass in the opposite chamber due to a partisan divide on the appropriate role of the government in cybersecurity.

"This has been a very interesting and troubling discussion in Congress," she said. "It gets to the question which is 'how does the government, which has overall security responsibly, interact with the private sector when an attack on priv…
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