The Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a group of government and non-government cyber experts, will recommend Congress increase the power of the executive branch in responding to significant cyber events, create a cyber emergency fund and strengthen the federal government’s relationship with the private sector.
While commissioners have refused to offer specific details about their recommendations until the report is released later this month, four commissioners attending a Foundation for the Defense of Democracies event March 5 discussed concepts included in the report.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc. and co-chair of the commission, said the group wants to give the president the authority to declare a “cyber state of distress” which would unlock access for a “cyber response and recovery fund.”
“This new mechanism … would allow states, local, tribal and territorial governments access to enhanced federal expertise and resources that they currently don’t have right now,” Gallagher said.
The commission will release 75 cyber policy recommendations March 11 to reshape how the federal government approaches cyber issues. The report is expected to cover how cyber…
