Bill signed to create Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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US President Donald Trump signed today a bill into law, approving the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

The bill, known as the CISA Act, reorganizes and rebrands the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), a program inside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as CISA, a standalone federal agency in charge of overseeing civilian and federal cybersecurity programs...

Read more: Trump signs bill that creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | ZDNet

 

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Amazing how it took Congress forever to pass this common sense bill. I actually wrote the then President-elect and in my letter I mentioned how our cybersecurity was at peril. Especially with SCADA systems.

The next thing we need to do is protect our electrical grid in terms of EMP, solar flares and Internet hacking. Every 11 years the sun goes through its sun spot cycle and the last event in the 1800's could happen again. And if it does people WILL die.