Frustrated with the lack of a single, governmentwide strategy on curbing large-scale cyber threats, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has launched a public-private partnership aimed at filling some of the gaps left by an amalgam of White House and agency policies.
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) launched by Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), as well as Reps. Jim Langevin (D-N.H.) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), takes its name from a task force convened by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 to craft a plan to combat threats from the Soviet Union. The task force held its first meeting at the White House’s sunroom.
The commission will consist of three work groups aimed at crafting a single, unifying cybersecurity strategy. King told reporters he expects the commission will release a final report before the end of December.
“There’s no central leadership, and there’s no policy that our adversaries or our allies, for that matter, can discern about what we’re going to do in a particular situation. And my belief is that until we clarify that, we’re going to keep getting hit,” King said in a conference call Monday.
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